Historical Mailing Lists

These mailing lists are no longer active. They were used for discussion during the early design phase of perl6.

perl6-announce-rfc: Moderated list for news of new and updated RFCs.
Subscribe: perl6-announce-rfc-subscribe@perl.org - Archive.
perl6-internals: Mission: To develop RFCs on the internals API and architecture of perl6.
Description: This list is for discussion of internals design, architecture changes, embedding, extending, and so on.
Subscribe: perl6-internals-subscribe@perl.org - Archive
perl6-language: Mission: To develop RFCs on the language design of perl6.
Description: This list is for discussing user-visible changes to the language.
Subscribe: perl6-language-subscribe@perl.org - Archive
perl-qa: Mission: To develop RFCs on QA processes in perl6 development.
Description: This list is for the topics relating to quality assurance, including test suites, validation processes, and bug tracking.
Subscribe: perl-qa-subscribe@perl.org - Archive
perl6-stdlib: Mission: To develop RFCs on the standard perl6 library.
Description: This list is for this list will cover module APIs (e.g., fixing the screwup with IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3's argument order), proposed new standard modules (e.g., web and FTP), installation (e.g., suggest a perl6 CPAN design that makes the equivalent of CPAN.pm easy to write), and so on.
Subscribe: perl6-stdlib-subscribe@perl.org - Archive
perl6-meta (closed): Mission: Discussion and development of the process of developing perl6. (this is to the ongoing process what bootstrap@perl.org was to the initial work).
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perl6-build (closed): Mission: To develop RFCs on the configuration and installation of perl6.
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perl6-internals-api-extensions (closed): Mission: Develop the API for perl 6 extensions
Description: This group is charged with developing the API perl presents to extensions. This group should develop an RFC for this, as well as a header file, stub source, and as a few rough test programs.
perl6-internals-api-embed (closed): Mission: Develop the API for perl 6 embedders
Description: This group is charged with developing the API perl presents to embedding programs. This group should develop an RFC for this, as well as a header file, stub source, and as a few rough test programs.
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perl6-internals-api-parser (closed): Mission: Develop the API for the perl 6 parser
Description: This group is charged with developing the API for the perl 6 parser/lexer/tokeniser. This group should develop an RFC for this, as well as a header file, stub source, and as a few rough test programs. The parser will be written in perl.
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perl6-internals-bignum (closed): Mission: Working group for the BIGNUM package.
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perl6-internals-syntax-tree (closed): Mission: Develop the syntax tree structure for perl 6
Description: This group is charged with developing the structure of the syntax tree (or HIR, if you'd prefer that term) that the perl 6 parser hands off to the bytecode compiler, optimizer, and execution engine.
perl6-internals-unicode (closed): Mission: Develop a consistent vision of how perl should handle unicode (and all character data) internally.
Description: This group's mission is to get perl 6 a solid foundation to handle unicode data. This includes how perl handles character and binary data internally, as well as how it presents that data to external code. (Including binary extensions and embedding apps)
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perl6-language-data (closed): Mission: Discuss and draft RFCS for Perl 6 language features related to the Perl Data Language (PDL) and numeric Perl in general. Report weekly to the Language WG.
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perl6-language-flow (closed): Mission: Draft, discuss, and revise RFCs relating to flow control in Perl 6, eg switch/case, looping, etc. Suggest/request other flowcontrol-related lists if appropriate
Description: Submit flowcontrol-related RFCs to the Perl 6 librarian as they are developed.
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perl6-language-io (closed): Mission: Draft and discuss I/O related RFCs, including (but not limited to) RFCs 14 and 30.
Description: Submit I/O related RFCs to the Perl 6 librarian as they are developed.
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perl6-language-regex (closed): Mission: Draft and discuss RFCs related to regexp language issues in Perl 6. Report weekly to Language WG.
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perl6-language-subs (closed): Mission: Draft, discuss, and revise RFCs relating to subroutines in Perl 6, eg named parameters, want(), prototyping
Description: Submit subroutine-related RFCs to the Perl 6 librarian as they are developed.
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perl6-language-mlc (closed): Mission: Discuss and redraft the multiline comments RFC
Description: Michael to post the redrafted RFC back to perl6-language
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perl6-language-strict (closed): Mission: Discuss the use of the strict pragma in Perl 6
Description: Redrafted versions of Perl RFCs 6 and 16, sent to the librarian and hence to the perl6-language list
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perl6-language-datetime (closed): Mission: To develop RFCs related to date and time handling in Perl 6, including RFCs 48, 7, etc; to identify areas which need to be addressed by the stdlib working group.
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perl6-language-errors (closed): Mission: To develop RFCs related to error handling and exceptions in Perl 6, possibly combining existing RFCs into a more cohesive whole.
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perl6-language-objects (closed): Mission: Develop RFCs related to objects and OO programming in Perl, possibly rationalising existing RFCs where they cover the same ground.
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perl6-licenses (closed): Mission: To develop RFCs on licensing.
Description: Larry has suggested some changes to the Artistic license, which need to be codified. The perl6 copyright holder policy needs to be defined.
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perl6-language-unlink (closed): Mission: Discuss and redraft RFC 29. Draft and discuss an opposing RFC *or* rename RFC 29 to "ways of dealing with unlink()" and discuss various viewpoints.
Description: Submit redrafted RFC 29 to perl6-language. Optionally submit opposing RFC.