Okay, a quick update on my situation ...
1. I completed the committer registration with the Pugs repository.
1.1 No problems per se, but the new member agreement was written in Chinese so I couldn't read it (the Google translate tool wasn't much help); so I just clicked through it.
2. Downloaded and installed the Colloquay IRC client for the first time, and it works great; I was able to get into IRC and chatted there from 5-12pm or so last night (GMT -8).
2.1 Thanks for both of the IRC client suggestions.
3. Downloaded and installed svn for the first time, with no problems.
4. Downloaded and installed GHC for the first time, no problems.
5. Created a local working folder for Pugs and fetched the latest version using svn, for the first time, no problems.
6. Detected problems in and fixed and committed the MAKEFILE and MAKEFILE.SKIP files; committed r486 and r488.
6.1 Apparently "make manifest" is your friend; saves on manual updates.
6.1.1 You still update the .SKIP manually, the above respects it.
7. The standard make procedures result in "all tests passed" though afterwards I got an error about "v6.0.0 expected, this is only v5.8.1".
8. Had an IRC chat on names for Perl 6 modules; I'll post something about this to the email list in a little while, following what came out of that (suggesting the creation of a FAQ-type or standards committee recommendation type document).
Finally, I expect to add+commit the first Locale::KeyedText for Perl 6 in a few days.
-- Darren Duncan
