Taichi: [Roadmap] Long-term plan

[yuanming-hu]

Minor version schedule

| Version | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 |
|---------|----------|----------|----------|-----|
| Date | Oct 2020 | Mar 2021 | Aug 2021 | TBD |

We will leverage GitHub projects to track minor version progress.

Long-term TODO items

• [ ] IR standardization (#689)
• [ ] hash SNode
• [ ] bitmasked garbage collection
• [ ] AMDGPU backend
• [ ] Restore vectorization on CPUs
• [ ] Real function support (related: #602)
• [ ] Move frontend to Python (#925)
• [ ] Expose CHI C++ API
• [ ] Codecov or something else to cover C++17 linting
• [ ] Remove C++ exceptions
• [ ] Multi-GPU or distributed computation support

[rexwangcc]

+1 for leveraging the Github projects to track the progress! Since it provides a borad view, would it make sense to add invidivual issues to the board as well? E.g. I would expect to see all issues in the to-do column of v8 board rather than the pinned v8 one.

(nvm if it's already on your radar)

[yuanming-hu]

Great idea! I should have done that. I added a few known issues there. Please feel free to add more when deemed appropriate :-)