Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:53:17PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: Given the current version number scheme (year.month), it's highly unlikely that we'll ever see a Rakudo 1.0. So I'd change that to after a production

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: - What was the first production release of Linux? - At what point was each of the above declared a production release; was it concurrent with the release, or some time afterwards? Linus declared what his goals for 1.0 were

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:33, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 18:25 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: At least have the decency to change the e-mail subject when the discussion's subject has changed! IMO, the subject changed at the second post. I was just

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:05, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: - What was the first production release of Linux? - At what point was each of the

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 18:45 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: You guys stopped discussing the questionnaire a LONG time before PM answered. There has hardly been a handful of helpful posts. That's what I said and that was my first post. Getting back on topic, I, for one, would like to know

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 19:02, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: Many people seem to be proposing questions which ask people's opinions of things which are factual and can be answered readily by reading the documentation. For example, your question can be partly answered by looking at the

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 20:10 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: It does not, however, answer any of the question_s_ I wanted asked, and which others have wanted asked, not even partially. I haven't seen any such requests from you on this thread. Is this discussion happening elsewhere as well ?

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: I'm not sure what 'TPF survey' is. http://survey.perlfoundation.org/ Gabor

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: Out of curiosity (because I think it will illuminate some of the difficulty Rakudo devs have in declaring something to be a production release):  - What constitues a production release? The developers judge that the

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: I think freezing a subset of what you eventually want to have and then getting as close as you can on a fairly tight schedule is the best way to get buy-in from users. That is generally what I expect to see in a production

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 22:30 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: Thanks. Found that already. It does not list the questions asked and I can't figure out how to download the PDF report or to clone the repository it's in on github. Jan Involdstadt suggested I look at TPF website and following the

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

2011-01-02 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: On 01/01/2011 10:15 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: So for example: I'll start learning Perl 6  (select one or more that fits your opinion) *) when Larry Wall declares that Perl 6.0 is ready *) after Rakudo 1.0 is released Given