Pugs

Intermission over.

Initially, I thought it was typical burn-out. Between the intense Brazil hackathon (with fglock++, incrementally-built bootstrapping compilers; with cmarcelo++, metaobjects in Haskell for 6.28.0) and moving to a new residence, a few weeks of rest seemed natural.

As the sudden drowsiness and strange non-motivation worsened, I thought it's some kind of mental block, and focused on Jifty instead.

But when external emergencies demanded my attention, all focus was suddenly lost, replaced by massive panic and self-doubt, leading to e.g., the cancellation of my POPL trip just before boarding.

At last, nine days ago, I was hospitalized at the brink of liver failure. Months of intellectualization and analysis was proved immaterial, as there is one very simple explanation: Acute Hepatitis B. The symptoms quickly ceased, thanks to lamivudine, and I expect to be discharged tomorrow, with 95%+ chance of full (immune, non-carrier) recovery.

With the nearest $job/conference safely booked at one month away, I've put various unpleasantries behind me, started populating the new dev.pugscode.org workspace, and resumed Pugs hacking (aiming for a March release of the much-delayed 6.28.0).

So... Stay tuned for backblogs on the progress happened during my absence. Viva la vie! ☺

Intermission.

This is a short update to say that my online time, due to unexpected circumstances, will be reduced severely for another week.  Sorry for the intermission; see y'all on IRC/MailingList/Blog/etc next week. :-)

A new home for Pugs!

After a week of planning, and with plenty of help from clkao++, obra++, #jifty, #bps and #perl6, I'm glad to announce that Pugs now has a new, permanent URL for its subversion repository:

• http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/ (HTTP)
• https://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/ (HTTPS)

Subversion users, please switch your working copy this way:

svn switch --relocate http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs

SVK users, please update the mirror path:

svk mirror --relocate //mirror/pugs http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs

Commit bits are re-mailed to all existing committers and metacommitters; please set your password again by following the URL in the mail.  If you have not received the new commit bit, please let me know on #perl6 or via email.

Metacommitters can now manage invitations with a prettier interface at http://commitbit.pugscode.org/, powered by CommitBit.

We are still working on restoring the read-only mirrors at openfoundry and svn.perl.org.  Thanks to yet another a soon-to-be-announced open source product from #bps, we plan to turn them into full R/W mirrors, so we can distribute the load by setting up one replication server per continent.

There is a lot more exciting news going on than this administrative change -- such as the MO object model finally landed to the repository, MiniPerl6 parser bootstrapping, etc. -- but they will take separate journal entries to cover.  Until then, have fun spreading the commit bits! :-)

Intermission again...

Jet lag hits! --More--
You lose 5 days.

I've had four half-finished journal entries (on Parrot object model, the self-hosting lrep compiler, Moose, the shining new S26: Perldoc, hacking with Sasada and other Ruby people in next week's YAPC::Asia to target YARV, the upcoming Pugs perlcast, etc etc...) but my brain isn't yet  readjusted to Realspace time, and so will have to wait some more. :-(

By the way, I've recorded a voice track for the Larry was a mariner talk.  Other talks are coming soon as well. Thanks to Arathorn++, we have a beginning of a synchronized version (Flash 7+ required), though the cue file is probably out of sync and needs work... Patches welcome. :-)

(Intermission.)

$Job is in the final 48-hours deadline push before the 10 days of Lunar new year holiday, so I had to drop my online presence to get this SQLite/Jifty/Lighttpd/LiveGrid thing beaten into shape.

Apologies for the inconveniences... I'll be back. :-)

Subprojects.

Here are some new ongoing subprojects I intend to write about next week:

• Perl6::Doc collection -- successor to Perl6::Bible
• New native PIL runcore and its object space bootstrap
• Module load/import/export resolver
• Perl 6 port of PGE and OpTable parser
• Haskell port of OpTable parser
• ...other suggestions?

302 Moved

The Pugs journal has moved from my use.perl journal  to http://pugs.blogs.com/.

I have imported all the old posts; comments are not yet imported.