Open Source Projects Rakudo Perl 6
Confessions of an open source project leader 		 
  1.  
  2. Introduction
  3. What this talk is about
  4. About the speaker
  5. Disclaimer
  7. Rakudo Perl
  9. Downloading and building Rakudo Perl
  10. Rakudo Star (or "Rakudo *")
  11. Chapter 1: Perl Myths
  12. Perl Myths
  13. Myth 1: Perl is dead
  14. Guess the language
  15. Guess the language
  16. 'software engineer'
  17. 'language developer'
  18. Growing community and codebase
  19. CPAN modules uploaded per month
  20. CPAN new modules per month
  21. CPAN authors uploading per month
  22. CPAN age of modules
  23. Perl Myths
  24. Perl 6 leads to Perl 5 renaissance
  25. Milestones in the Perl 5 Renaissance
  26. Perl Myths
  27. Chapter 2: Burning out
     
  28. Chapter 2: Burning out
    (no, not me)
  29. Perl "Pumpkings"
  30. Open source motto
  31. "Release early, release often"
  32. Ruby releases, 2007-present
  33. Python releases, 2007-present
  34. Perl 5 releases, 2007-present
  35. "Software development is invisible
    until a release occurs"
  36. Other issues
  37. A message from a recent Perl 5 pumpking
  38. A message from a recent Perl 5 pumpking
    July 2009
  39. Chapter 3: The Parrot story
  40. The Parrot story
  41. Parrot's approach
  42. Time based releases
  43. Parrot releases, 2007-present
  44. Parrot releases, 2007-present, page 1 of 2
  45. Parrot releases, 2007-present, page 2 of 2
  46. Parrot releases, present -- ??
  47. Effect of time-based releases on software development
  48. Things need to make this work well
  49. Chapter 4: The Rakudo Perl story
  50. Rakudo Perl releases
  52. Rakudo Perl: Going farther
  53. The magic of Git & GitHub
  54. Perl 6: decouple "compiler" from "distribution"
  55. Contrast to Perl 5
  56. Moving the world with a toothpick
  57. Chapter 5: Magical & mystical release numbers
  58. The myth of "finished"
  59. The myth of "stable"
  60. The myth of "1.0"
  61. The myth of "major/minor" release numbers
  62. The "official" Rakudo Perl release
  63. Q: How to drive/sustain Rakudo development?
  64. A: Perl 6 Applications
  65. November, Druid, Proto, ...
  66. find bugs
  67. highlight needed features
  68. highlight Perl 6 spec issues
  69. but
  70. ☹
  71. Authors won't start writing applications until Rakudo is "complete"
  72. Authors won't start writing applications until Perl 6 is "complete"
  73. ☺ Answer ☺
  74. Avoid the concept of

    "finished"
  75. What Rakudo is doing
    (as a project)
  76. We will make
  77. When we will do it
  78. April 2010
  79. What will it have?
     
  80. What will it have?
    What won't it have?
  81. Official release
  82. What will it be called?
  83. Rakudo 1.0 ✗
  84. ...we also want to re-think
    the meaning of "Perl 6 release"

    So...
  85. Rakudo X

     
  86. Rakudo "whatever"

     
  87. Rakudo *

     
  88. Rakudo *

    "Rakudo Star"
  89.  
  90. Chapter 6: Cool operators in Perl 6
  91. (five minutes' worth)
  94. Hyperoperators (vector processing)
  95. Hyperoperators (vector processing)
  96. Reduction operators (pairwise infix)
  97. The zip (Z) operator
  98. The cross (X) operator
  99. The cross (X) meta-operator
  109. Chapter 7: Conclusions
  110. The End
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