It felt a bit like a postpartum depression since the previous Perl 6 Weekly 4 weeks ago. Just before the Christmas release, Jonathan Worthington put his thoughts about post 6.c release policy in a gist. Early January, Stefan Seifert started working on creating a 6.d setting in a branch. But nothing much apparently changed after that. Will Coleda explains it all in his recent blog entry.

FOSDEM 2016 Is Coming

This coming Saturday/Sunday (30/31 January), FOSDEM will be happening again in Brussels. We’re also going to have a Perl DevRoom on Sunday. These are the Perl 6 related presentations that will be given there:

More specific information about Perl at FOSDEM can be found in Wendy’s blog post.

Mike Friedman’s Journey Into Perl 6

Mike Friedman started a series of Exploring Perl 6 blog posts about his experiences trying to use / get used to Perl 6. It is a nice introduction for those of you who would consider themselves uninitiated: Up And Running, Signatures, Part 1, Sigil Invariance, Numeric Types, Meta Operators and Hyper Operators.

The Perl 6 User Experience

In a blog post, Zoffix Znet announced a repository dedicated to documenting the many aspects of the Perl 6 user experience. Let those Pull Requests come in to make the Perl 6 user experience better and better!

What Jonathan Did While Recovering

Jonathan Worthington wrote a series of blog posts about finally being able to use Perl 6 as a user: Not Guts But 6 parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, in which he fleshes out the STOMP client into a fully functional module. Check out this work in progress.

More IRC Channels

Apart from the #perl6 channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.org), the #perl6 channel on irc.perl.org has been revived as the “Funofficial Perl 6 channel”. Also, to channel discussions about the Perl 6 tool-chain and the Perl 6 release process, there are now two more channels on Freenode: #perl6-toolchain and #perl6-release.

More Documentation

Praise to all of the people working on the documentation: about 300 commits since Christmas! Of course, documentation can always be improved: so let those Pull Requests come in!

Assorted Blog Posts And Other Items

Many, many blog posts and news items about the release of Perl 6. And of course, the normal flow of Perl 6 related blog posts. Here they come, in more or less chronological order:

Notable Links from the Backlog

Scanned the backlog until January 15th. Here are what I thought were notable links mentioned in that backlog.

Ecosystem Additions

Around 60 distributions were added in the past 4 weeks. That’s about 2 a day! Definitely not up to par with CPAN uploads just yet, but a good development nonetheless. So, without further ado, the additions:

Inline::Ruby by Brock Wilcox

Grammar::Highlighter by Stefan Seifert

CompUnit::Repository::Panda by Stefan Seifert

IRC::Client::Plugin::HNY by Zoffix Znet

Data::Dump::Tree by Nadim Khemir

File::LibMagic by Dave Rolsky

Hash::Consistent by Brad Clawsie

RPi::Device::DS18B20 by Cory Spencer

String::CamelCase by yowcow

PKafka by Maxim Khailo

App::GPTrixie by Sylvain Colinet

Num::HexFloat by Dan Kogai

RPi::Device::SMBus by Jonathan Stowe

RPi::Device::PiGlow by Jonathan Stowe

CompUnit::Util by Lloyd Fournier

IRC::Client::Plugin::Factoid by Zoffix Znet

Test::IO::Socket::Async by Jonathan Worthington

AWS::Pricing by Sam Morrison

Test::Output by Zoffix Znet

IO::Path::Mode by Jonathan Stowe

Native::Resources by Rob Hoelz

Email::Notmuch by Gonéri Le Bouder

Concurrent::Iterator by Jonathan Worthington

POD::EOD by Rob Hoelz

IO::MiddleMan by Zoffix Znet

Text::Spintax by Dale Evans

Slang::Roman by Jeffrey Goff

AttrX::InitArg by Lloyd Fournier

Prime::Factor by thundergnat

XHTML::Writer by Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer

LCS::All by Helmut Wollmersdorfer

LCS::BV by Helmut Wollmersdorfer

Serialize::Naive by Peter Pentchev

Compress::Bzip2::Raw by Altai-man

if by Tobias Leich

Typesafe::HTML by Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer

Typesafe::XHTML::Writer by Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer

Linux::Proc::Statm by Sylvain Colinet

Finance::CompoundInterest by James Carman

AttrX::PrivateAccessor by Pierre Vigier

OO::Schema by Lloyd Fournier

Build::Graph by Leon Timmermans

Build::Simple by Leon Timmermans

Compress::Bzip2 by Altai-man

OpenCV by Ahmad M. Zawawi

Archive::SimpleZip by pmqs

Tinky by Jonathan Stowe

WebService::AWS::Auth::V4 by Brad Clawsie

NativeCall::Errno by rightfold

LMDB by Salvador Ortiz

Module::Skeleton by Salvador Ortiz

Crypt::TweetNacl by Frank Hartmann

MagickWand by Ahmad M. Zawawi

Algorithm::AhoCorasick by okaoka

Attribute::Lazy by Jonathan Stowe

AttrX::Lazy by Pierre Vigier

Inline::FALSE by rightfold

Inline::Brainfuck by Zoffix Znet

Concurrent::BoundedChannel by gotoexit

Signing Off

Hopefully, everybody in Perl 6 land is more or less on the same page again. Next week Perl 6 Weekly is going to be a bit difficult for yours truly to make, because of FOSDEM and associated activities. Hopefully, timotimo++ will be able to pick it up again.