Wendy

• Website: wendyga.wordpress.com/
• About: I blog sometimes about Perl. I love Perl. Perl 5 and Perl 6. I love the Perl-community.

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• Commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (3a/4)
  Work on the achievements page has been extensive by now. Nice to see that many people worked on this already and even nicer to see that it is this much... http://2013.qa-hackathon.org/qa2013/wiki?node=Achievements...
• Posted Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (3a/4) to Wendy

  The end of the Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster was as busy as it started. My drive to Manchester Airport with 3 hackers was enjoyable. I dropped two of them of at the airport and the third one at a lovely small hotel/b&b near the airport. The drive back was filled with Sevendust, rather loud,…

• Commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (2)
  Excellent idea to do that again. But I am sure it would be nice if there was a easy to use tool that more people than just the CPAN-specialists would be able to use, and if some things would be...
• Posted Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (3) to Wendy

  The QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster went today into its last day. Still busy, bustling with energy, concentration, typing.

  First thing to do was bring somebody back to the hotel because he forgot a bag, and bring him back to the university. Ah well, nice car trip.

  This morning I fin…

• Commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (2)
  The proposal was to delete CPAN distributions that are older than 5 years and that are not the latest version of the module and that are not updated for many years and so on. And if so, under which conditions,...
• Posted Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (2) to Wendy

  Saturday 13 april 2013
  

  Well, not all. This mor…

• Posted Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy to Wendy

  Friday 12 april
  

  Impressive number of goals by the…

• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  MST awesome as always. Check. Diffusing the situation. Check. New name for Perl 5, Pumpking Perl. Check. Color: orange. Check. New things to throw at mst at end of his talks: pumpkins (the stuffed toy types). Check. Name for Perl...
• Commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts
  Sigh of relief... Thanks for this article. I really hope people are going to pay more attention to the accomplishments of the Perl 6 development team....
• Commented on Perl 7
  Perl 6 already has Rakudo with a monthly release cycle with year and month in the name. At the moment we can all work with Rakudo Star 2013.01 and work is being done on 2013.02. Renaming Perl 5.20 to Perl...

Comment Threads

• Graham Knop commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  What currently exists as Perl 5 needs an identity. A real identity that people can both understand and promote. "A member of the Perl family" is not an identity.

  Changing the name is not just about changing our comparison to Perl 6. It is about signaling to people both outside and inside the echo chamber that we are willing to move forward. That we want to move forward.

  pumpkin presents the best option I've seen for an answer to that. It doesn't solve every problem, but it solves enough. It gives us the room to grow into whatever we want to be.

• Robert commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  Someone looking for a new language is going to try "Pumpkin Perl"? I doubt it.

• Matt S Trout (mst) commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity

  Mike, I was the one who originally popularised 'perl5 is a velociraptor' - my YAPC::* closing keynotes summarising the state of the perl5 community are known as 'State of the Velociraptor'.

  However, I think the raptor meme belongs to the perl5+CPAN platform rather than to perl5 the language itself, so I chose not to try and force it onto the language.

• CosmicNet commented on Perl 7 - Final Thoughts

  Lets just rename it to Peril, then go on rapid release cycle like FireFox. Then we can have a new major release every couple of months, and all the huge benefits that have come with that: https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

  Of course, I'm joking.

  I can't help the feeling that if the effort from all these years of Perl 5/Perl 6 attrition, had been directed into Perl 6 as they naturally should have been, it would have been ready some time ago. Instead the dog chooses to keep chewing on it's own leg.

• brian d foy commented on Perl QA Hackathon 2013 in Lancaster - notes by Wendy (2)

  A couple of years ago we had a CPAN Spring Cleaning and were able to reduce the size of the CPAN mirror by several gigabytes. This makes us slightly nicer to our mirrors' disk requirements. It was completely voluntary and worked quite well.