On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:54:23AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > > -- The "latest news" on the Perl6 section of dev.perl.org was updated > July 7th, introducing Piers, and other than linking to Piers' summaries > contains no information pertinent to Perl6 -- only Parrot.
Sounds like a place you might volunteer. > I don't *WANT* to write damn documentation. I wrote a first-chapter > summary of some basic Apocalypse 2 stuff because, a year and a half > after it first came out, NOBODY HAD DAMN WELL DONE IT YET. Worse, I'm > bloody *volunteering* great gobs of time to do it, and it's like > pulling teeth to get people to agree to it! Unfortunately we don't have time to edit and approve every summary that every individual produces. Again, we could spend all our time on that task alone to the exclusion of all others. The project has to keep focus. And yes, the review is necessary. The only thing worse than no documentation is inaccurate documentation. > >...you might contribute to Parrot. > > I would *love* to. What should I work on first... Subscribe to p6-internals and find out where they need help. > Again, my point is that Parrot is doing fine, and Larry is doing fine. > But the hole in the middle -- coming up with the details so that the > Parroteers can actually implement something, and not have to sit on > their @$$es for a few months after they've finished the non-Perl core > -- is getting _very_ _wide_. The obstruction you're imagining doesn't exist. The "Parroteers" ask for guidance from Dan. When Dan feels the details aren't clear enough yet he brings the issue to the rest of the design team. When none of us can give him an immediate answer (because we haven't covered it yet) and it is an important issue standing in the way of progress in Parrot, we sit down and hash it out until we have a clear answer. I'm not rejecting your help. We welcome all the help we can get. I'm merely asking (wearing my official assistant project manager hat, if it helps) that you harness your energy to the places where it will have the maximum benefit. And believe us when we tell you that you haven't found the right place yet. Allison
