On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> I think I see two problems:
> * a lot of people want to know what's going on, but not all have the
> experience to be able to follow it
> * it's difficult for the design to happen through the questions
AMEN.
> perl6-internals-design is for a team of no more than 10 people. These
> people should have experience either with perl5 or with a similar
> system.
This was actually going to be a Perl 5 thing, but I mention it in the hope
that people will add $two and $two together and get the necessary five. :)
Looking back over the perl5 Changes file recently, I was shocked and disturbed
to find how *few* people were contributing to the internals - not just the
platform-specific stuff or the Perl library, but the core C files in the Perl
distribution, and the real guts at that. (??.[ch] and friends)
Maybe there just isn't very much interesting work to do, or maybe nobody
understands it at all, but to produce a list of twenty people who have been
regularly contributing to various areas of the internals, I had to go all the
way back to August. Here are the twenty people I found prominently working on
the internals, in the Changes file since August: (in no particular order)
Alan, Jarkko, Dan, Andy, Dominic, Sarathy, Merijn, Hugo, Ilya,
Nick Clark, Nick I-S, me, John Tobey, Yitzchak, Robin, Casey,
Jens, Spider, Mike, Benjamin Stuhl.
Eight of those twenty haven't posted to perl6-* since my records began.
(September) The rest might want to think hard about how much they want to help
out. :)
[ Of course, there have very obviously been people on perl6-internals saying
good and useful things who have not been involved in perl 5, and I'm not
looking down on them - I just don't have hard, verifiable data on *exactly*
how useful they are. :) ]
As for me, I hate this "self-selection" thing because it forces me to be
immodest. Oh well, better get used to it: Me. I think I'd be useful.
I'd also like to propose another mailing list (Yay! YAML!) to which people can
copy messages from the -design list and ask for clarification on technical
things they don't understand:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parse tree tiling
Clever Bastard wrote in perl6-internals-design:
> ... degrees of freedom of a spline ...
Uh, what's a spline?
--
Simon: `hello kitty' douche. If you are getting some and you know what
hello kitty is... Well, you're an exceptionally lucky man.
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