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• Posted #perl6 highlights/summary for April 25th - May 1st 2013 to Perl 6 Reports

  A highlights/summary of recent activity and discussion on the #perl6 IRC channel on Freenode.net:

  • nwc10: "jnthn: WTF did you just do? nqp head is 28% faster than 5 hours ago"
  • nwc10 noted a 10-fold speed up for some NQP code…
• Commented on Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities - Survey
  At the moment Perl 6 is akin to a sub-project with a goal very pertinent to your survey. As Larry Wall said in 2000: "I want Perl 6 to be the community's rewrite of ... the community." Things haven't yet...
• Commented on tie() in perlito5
  A while back you thought implementing ties would slow perlito down, right?...
• Commented on Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities - Survey
  Fyi you should separate out data about Perl 5 as against Perl 6. They have dramatically distinct communities / cultures. For example, P5P, the home of Perl 5 contributors, is an infamously argumentative mailing list. #perl6, the home of Perl...
• Commented on #perl6 summaries for 2012-09-02
  Hi Olivier, Thank you for your feedback! I'll try harder not to indulge my zany title tendencies. ;)...
• Posted Daily #perl6 summary now built in to irclog software to Perl 6 Reports

  One of the best ways to connect to the Perl 6 community is to join the hub of its activity, the freenode IRC channel #perl6. Another great approach is to read the daily log for that hub. To start with the full log for today, visit

• Posted #perl6 Summary for 2012-09-03 to Perl 6 Reports

  The freenode IRC channel #perl6 is the heart of the Perl 6 community. Some folk like to read the daily log. But it gets long. So...
  
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• Posted #perl6 summaries for 2012-09-02 to Perl 6 Reports
  
  Please read about this report.
  
  There are 26 #perl6 summaries for 2012-09-02.
  
  
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• Commented on #perl6 highlights for week ending 2012-09-01
  All reports now mention me (raiph, not Piers Cawley) as the writer....
• Posted #perl6 highlights for week ending 2012-09-01 to Perl 6 Reports

  I (raiph) have switched to selected highlights rather than an exhaustive summary and changed some other things. I'd appreciate comments from both #perl6 regulars and those who are just reading these reports saying whether or not these changes are an improvement over

• Posted #perl6 summary for week ending 2012-08-25 to Perl 6 Reports

  First time reading one of these summaries? Please glance at Notes.

  2012-08-19:

  • japhb updated the module installer panda: "Bootstrap panda …
• Posted #perl6 summary for week ending 2012-08-18 to Perl 6 Reports

  Summary entries suggested/written by #perl6 users. Editing by raiph.

  (The rest of this blog entry, following this paragraph, was originally a reddit post. I decided to copy it here as a first entry for this new "Perl 6 reports" blog, which is the home for these summaries and other Perl 6 r…

Comment Threads

• Kevin Carillo commented on Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities - Survey

  Thanks for that. The survey does differentiate Perl 5 to Perl 6. I have to admit that I was not aware that there was such a difference in culture. I sincerely hope I will get data from both so that we could see the difference.
  Btw, the survey lists Perl sub-projects (endorsed by Perl foundation): Catalyst, Mojo, Plack... It will be interesting to study how things are different from one sub-project to another one.

• Kevin Carillo commented on Newcomer experience and contributor behavior in Perl and other FOSS communities - Survey

  This does sound that there has been some tension between the Perl 5 and Perl 6 people. I was not aware of it.
  It would be nice to have enough respondents from both sides to be able to statistically 'see' the culture difference between both (which would demonstrate what you are saying). The survey will capture that.

  
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