These are topics and/or tasks that are likely candidates to be addressed or worked on at the Oslo Perl 6 hackaton 2009. They're here as a list to remind us of (1) important issues we may want to address when we have a gathering of the principals, and (2) ideas for things that we can recruit others to work on.

Rakudo-specific targets

• Update the development roadmap
• Review RT tickets, verify that open bugs/tickets have corresponding spectests
• Ideas/planning for initial module implementations, where hosted, if/how distributed with implementations
• Update documentation on rakudo.org
• Create/update FAQ on rakudo.org
• Update "committer's guide", "release manager's guide", etc. documents
• Plan for handling .leave
• Spectest coverage review
• Fix 'make install' target
• Planning for laziness and lazy lists
• Identify critical stumbling blocks for newcomers to Rakudo / Perl 6
• Clean up handling of True, False, .true, .not, etc.
• Clean up handling of .Str for some builtin types (Int, Num)
• qx() workarounds?
• RT #64810?
• Fix up capture handling
• Container autovivification

Perl 6 language targets

(Language design issues that may involve discussions with Larry or proposals to p6l)

• Handling of take() values, especially in loops
• Details of infix:<cmp>
• Do we want want() ?
• See also perl6 tasks
• String Range semantics
• Types nested inside roles
• access private members of sibling instances

Rakudo things accomplished / decided

• Fixed some bugs with .hash and .list on match objects (pmichaud)
• Added IO::Socket (masak, mberends)
• Lots more parameterized type thingies (jonathan++)
• Syntax highlighting in Padre

Perl 6 things accomplished / decided

• is augment lexically scoped? (answer: no, it's a form of monkey patching)
• review EXPORTALL semantics
• Clarify enum/boolean stringification semantics
• Type constraints in arrays 3, 4, 5 <-> Positional[Int] ?
• (answer -- generally an anonymous array/list doesn't promote to a given constraint)
• however, there is a "narrowness criteria" for parameterized roles, which jonathan++ has specced (S14) and implemented (Rakudo)
• Eliminated prefix:<=>, now use .get, .lines.
• Also eliminated fish term ( =<> ), it's now lines() .
• Binding doesn't have any "action at a distance" semantics -- tends to work locally
• "augment" should probably affect existing instances of a type
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