From ee402a72ebbcda0b2b60bfe386d9e12751e3723f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: pmichaud Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:10:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fill in a release name for #19 (Chicago) --- docs/announce/2009-07 | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- docs/release_guide.pod | 2 +- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/announce/2009-07 b/docs/announce/2009-07 index 2ef57abaad7..d643f8e9104 100644 --- a/docs/announce/2009-07 +++ b/docs/announce/2009-07 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #19 ("TODO") +Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #19 ("Chicago") On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce -the June 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #19 "TODO". +the June 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 July 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads . @@ -13,12 +13,16 @@ 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. TODO: reason for $release_name - +after a Perl Mongers group. The July 2009 release is named "Chicago", +as chosen by Perl 6 contributor Kyle Hasselbacher. Kyle has been +doing a truly outstanding job of turning open tickets in the RT queues +into tests for the spectest suite. Chicago.pm has been the host for +the 2006 and 2008 YAPC::NA conferences and sponsored Perl 6 hackathons +at each conference. In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've focused our efforts on quality -improvements and bootstrapping; to that goal we wrote the first operators -in Perl 6. +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: @@ -27,17 +31,17 @@ Some of the specific major changes and improvements in this release include: Rakudo is now passing [TODO] of the available spectest suite. * Operators can now be written in Perl 6, and this has been done for the - series operator '...', 'eqv' and the 'leg' operator + series operator '...', 'eqv' and the 'leg' operator. * The multi dispatcher has been refactored extensively, and now handles many more edge cases correctly. * User defined traits now follow the specification much more closely; some - built-in traits are written in Perl 6 + built-in traits are written in Perl 6. -* Improved testing: when Rakudo dies with a Null PMC Access, this is now - never considered a success, even if throwing an exception, forcing more - informative error messages to be emitted. +* Improved testing: Null PMC Access exceptions are never considered + "successful" by the test suite, even if the test was expecting a + (different) exception to be thrown. * Improved introspection: you can now get a list of roles composed into a class, and a list of attributes. diff --git a/docs/release_guide.pod b/docs/release_guide.pod index 0cbbed924b6..29b2fa827ff 100644 --- a/docs/release_guide.pod +++ b/docs/release_guide.pod @@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ part of monthly Parrot releases. 2009-04-23 Rakudo #16 "Bratislava" 2009-05-21 Rakudo #17 "Stockholm" 2009-06-18 Rakudo #18 "Pittsburgh" + 2009-07-23 Rakudo #19 "Chicago" =head2 Planned 2009 releases Dates are based on Parrot's expected release schedule. - 2009-07-23 Rakudo #19 2009-08-20 Rakudo #20 2009-09-17 Rakudo #21 2009-10-22 Rakudo #22