Hacking on Perl 6 code
If you haven't already, Download Perl 6 to prepare. The Perl 6 Community Development Server provides free accounts for Perl 6 development.
Reading Material for Pugs Hackers
Besides these links, the Pugs distribution also provides README, READTHEM and READTOO.
- Pugs Apocryphon 1 Overview of the Pugs project.
- Doing Pugs-related development.
- A Peek Into Pugs Internals
- German language notes about compiling Pugs
General Perl 6 Tasks
A running list of tasks to work in kept in the repo at TASKS. It's a catch-all list. Something on it is bound to match your skill set!
A specific test to help with is Smart Linking.
Perl 6 Tasks for Perl 6 programmers
Preludification Candidates discusses parts of Perl 6 that can be written in Perl 6.
There's also plenty to do related to the test suite, which is written in Perl 6. See t/TASKS for work to do there.
You might also be interested to Start Your Own Perl 6 Module, or work one of the existing ones.
Hacking the Perl 6 docs
In general, offical docs are stored in docs/Perl6 and docs/Pugs in POD format, and they are fair game to improve directly. The exception is most of the documents in docs/Perl6/Spec which is the official Perl 6 specification. Improvements to the official spec should be suggested to the perl6-language list.
- The README for would-be Pugs documentation contributors
- The evil plan. This mentions many things you can do to help out with docs, although it is a bit dated.
- A current task that needs help with filling out the Spec for IPC, IO and Signals. As a starting point, a lot of functions could just use the official Perl 5 docs copy/pasted in.
- This plan is still current AFAIK: "Perl 6 developers are refactoring relevant introductions, tutorials, specifications into the Perl6::Doc namespace; expect to see this module subsumed by it in the near future.":
