Perl 6
Perl 6 hackathon targets: Revision 6

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

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

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