The Development Dashboard is designed to answer two questions:

• What's left to do to release perl6 to CPAN, as in perl-6.0.0.tar.gz?
• What's been done so far?

We can't answer the question of "When will Perl 6 be done" without knowing what's left to do. This is a start.

What's left to do (including in-progress work)?

Language definition

Note: This is outside the control of perl6

perl6

• package so that "perl6 foo.pl" (or some close facsimile) works
• What command-line arguments are there?

perl6doc

• What is the list of pages that will exist? Will it be the same as for perl5?

perl6bug

• Where do the bugs go? Is the queue set up for it?
• Do we have just one perl6bug for all of the various implementations, or is each implementation simply need to provide its own?

Test suite

• Refactor suite to match synopsis organization
• Review all tests for conformance with language specification
• Verify spec coverage

Release perl6

• Release RC1
• Release perl6 as perl-6.0.0.tar.gz to CPAN

What's been done so far?

• Language definition
• Synopses
• perl6
• Compiler converted to use Parrot compiler tools
• Test suite
• Initial tests in pugs repository

Resources and other documents

• Perl 6 Users FAQ from May 2006
• http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/2006/05/msg6.html
• pmichaud's scratchpad for tasks
• perl6 tasks