[docs] bare bones 2009-08 announcement and release_guide update

docs/announce/2009-08

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+Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #20 ("PDX")
+
+On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
+the August 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #19 "Chicago".
+Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
+The tarball for the August 2009 release is available from
+http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .
+
+Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the
+frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue
+to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain
+the latest source directly from the main repository at github.
+More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo .
+
+Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named
+after a Perl Mongers group.  The August 2009 release is named "PDX",
+...and PDX is awesome for reasons that have not been filled in...
+
+In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've focused our efforts on quality
+improvements and bootstrapping.  We now have operators and additional
+builtin functions written in Perl 6.
+
+Some of the specific major changes and improvements in this release include:
+
+* Rakudo is now passing XX,XXX spectests, an increase of XXX
+  passing tests since the July 2009 release.  With this release
+  Rakudo is now passing XX% of the available spectest suite.
+
+* 
+
+Since the Perl 6 specification is still in flux, some deprecated features
+will be removed from Rakudo. Prominently among those are:
+
+ * '=$handle' is deprecated in favor of '$handle.get' (one line)
+   and '$handle.lines' (all lines).
+
+ * 'int $obj' is deprecated in favor of '$obj.Int'.
+
+The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
+making Rakudo Perl possible.  If you would like to contribute,
+see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
+mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
+
+The next release of Rakudo (#21) is scheduled for September 17, 2009.
+A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is
+available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file.  In general, Rakudo
+development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
+Parrot monthly release.  Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.
+
+Have fun!
+
+References:
+[1]  Parrot, http://parrot.org/

docs/release_guide.pod

@@ -18,16 +18,17 @@ part of monthly Parrot releases.
   2009-05-21   Rakudo #17 "Stockholm"          (pmichaud)
   2009-06-18   Rakudo #18 "Pittsburgh"         (pmichaud)
   2009-07-23   Rakudo #19 "Chicago"            (moritz)
+  2009-08-20   Rakudo #20 "PDX"                (kyle)
 
 =head2 Planned 2009 releases
 
 Dates are based on Parrot's expected release schedule.
 
-  2009-08-20   Rakudo #20                      (kyle)
   2009-09-17   Rakudo #21 "Seattle"            (particle)
   2009-10-22   Rakudo #22                      (duff)
   2009-11-19   Rakudo #23                      (masak)
   2009-12-17   Rakudo #24                      (chromatic)
+  2010-01-21   Rakudo #25
 
 =head2 Suggested .pm group names for future releases
 
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 =item *
 
 Review the RT queue for tickets that might need resolving
-prior to the release, addressing them as needed.
+prior to the release, addressing them as needed.  "Tickets
+that need resolving" is left your discretion.  Any problem
+that has a large impact on users is worth addressing either
+as a fix or as prominent documentation (the README and/or
+the release announcement).
 
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