Announcing the Winners of the $1,000 Prize for a Perl 6 wiki
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Conrad Schneiker
Mar 6, 2009, 11:16:29 AM3/6/09
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On behalf of AthenaLab, I’m extremely happy to announce the winners of
AthenaLab’s $1,000 prize for a Perl 6 based wiki.
The winners are Carl Mäsak, Johan Viklund, and Ilya Belikin.
They are members of the November project, which is a wiki written in
Rakudo Perl 6.
Carl Mäsak and Johan Viklund started the November project, and Ilya
Belikin has been very helpful in working on later developments. I
greatly appreciate what they’ve accomplished.
(Of course November crucially depends on a working version of Perl 6.
So I also greatly appreciate the supporting achievements of the
{Rakudo Perl 6, Parrot VM, and Pugs Perl
6 prototype} teams. Despite the relatively few people involved, and
their very limited financial support, their tireless efforts have
nevertheless given us the rapidly-maturing Perl 6 system. This system
is now relentlessly evolving into an {exceptionally-adaptable, super-
industrial-strength, super-pragmatic} platform. It’s still got a ways
to go, but the growing development momentum is extremely encouraging.)
So thanks much to everyone involved for all of their great work!
Please consider supporting them by whatever means you have available.
A public prototype of November is now operational. While November is
still in the early stages of development, considerable progress has
been made. The November developers have also been very helpful in
supporting Rakudo Perl 6 development. As Carl Mäsak puts it: "I'm
crashing Rakudo today, so that it won't crash for you tomorrow. That’s
how I like to think of it. There’s no way around it: someone has to go
first and clear the way with a machete. Software grows robust by being
tested and fixed a lot."
That was one of my main objectives in selecting a prize topic back in
May, 2006. November has already exceeded my hopes along these lines,
so I decided to make the award back in January of this year. We
delayed the public announcement to allow time for completing the
latest release of November, and for making the corresponding public
server upgrade.
More information about {the November wiki project, Rakudo Perl 6, and
related topics} can be found at the end of this note.
Carl has kindly provided the following overview of achievements, near
term plans, and long term vision.
== What has been done so far
Since it was unveiled to the world during YAPC::EU in August, the Perl
6 wiki engine called "November" has seen over 750 commits from mainly
three core developers. During that time, the wiki has matured from a
simple script to a family of modules, some of which have trickled into
other Perl 6 projects. As soon as Rakudo could precompile modules, we
added a build step, which led to a much-needed 17-fold speedup in page
loads.
November’s port of CPAN's HTML::Template was completely rewritten
using Perl 6 grammars. A tags/tagcloud feature was added. A subset of
the MediaWiki markup has been implemented. The beginnings of a set of
Perl 6 web modules were seen with the arrival of modules for
application-level URI dispatching. November was given a brand new
default stylesheet, and rewritten to be compatible with mod_perl6,
also currently in development. Using an improved version of Rakudo's
Test.pm, we added tests for all of our existing modules.
Today, the Perl 6 version of November can do user authentication,
editing, basic wiki formatting, recent changes, and pluggable layouts
and formatting engines.
== Plans for the next few months
November is usable today, but lacks many basic features usually
associated with a wiki engine. Specifically, we hope see images, per-
page revisions, line-by-line diffs, conflict merging, widget plugins,
formatting plugins, and RSS/Atom feeds added within the next half-year
or so.
During the past few weeks, a small ecosystem of Perl 6 projects has
started to take shape, mainly on github. To prevent code duplication
across projects, some modules will likely leave the November nest and
make homes of their own.
A simple installer (called "proto") has been created to install and
manage dependencies smoothly -- installing and setting up Parrot,
Rakudo, and November with all its dependencies can thus be done with a
single command, making November (and other Perl 6 projects) more
accessible for newcomers.
There are also plans to develop a one-stop Web module in Perl 6,
making it easier to create and deploy all types of web applications,
from almost-static pages to full-featured MVC-based web sites. When
this module is mature enough, November will be refitted to run on top
of it.
== Long-term vision
A fair amount of commits remain until November can be called "full-
featured", but when that happens, it is our hope that people will pick
it up, deploy it, enjoy it, and extend it.
November still has many, many commits to go before it can actually
trump other good wiki implementations out there in terms of desirable
features. However, it is our hope that it will continue to serve the
Perl 6 community in terms of catching bugs, exploring new language
patterns, and providing inspiration for novice Perl 6 hackers. One
day, it might well sport a set of features that other wiki
implementations can only dream of having. The Perl 6 language makes
such a vision seem quite probable.
== End of overview
Further information
The original version of this announcement:
http://www.AthenaLab.com/Perl_6_Wiki_Award.htm
The November page:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?november
Carl Mäsak’s blog:
http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/
The newly-designated primary site for Rakudo Perl 6 information (in
early set up stage):
http://rakudo.org/
The official Perl 6 wiki:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_6
The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?the_long_perl_6_super_feature_list
Rakudo Perl 6 Feature Status:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo_feature_status
The origins of this $1,000 prize:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?conrad_schneiker#about_that_1_000_prize
PS: Thanks to {Andy Lester of http://perlbuzz.com/ and associates} for
setting up the official {Perl 5 and Perl 6} wikis in 2006, and to
{Paul Fenwick and associates} at
http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6 for earlier versions.
Best regards,
Conrad Schneiker
www.AthenaLab.com
Official Perl 6 Wiki — http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
AthenaLab’s $1,000 prize for a Perl 6 based wiki.
The winners are Carl Mäsak, Johan Viklund, and Ilya Belikin.
They are members of the November project, which is a wiki written in
Rakudo Perl 6.
Carl Mäsak and Johan Viklund started the November project, and Ilya
Belikin has been very helpful in working on later developments. I
greatly appreciate what they’ve accomplished.
(Of course November crucially depends on a working version of Perl 6.
So I also greatly appreciate the supporting achievements of the
{Rakudo Perl 6, Parrot VM, and Pugs Perl
6 prototype} teams. Despite the relatively few people involved, and
their very limited financial support, their tireless efforts have
nevertheless given us the rapidly-maturing Perl 6 system. This system
is now relentlessly evolving into an {exceptionally-adaptable, super-
industrial-strength, super-pragmatic} platform. It’s still got a ways
to go, but the growing development momentum is extremely encouraging.)
So thanks much to everyone involved for all of their great work!
Please consider supporting them by whatever means you have available.
A public prototype of November is now operational. While November is
still in the early stages of development, considerable progress has
been made. The November developers have also been very helpful in
supporting Rakudo Perl 6 development. As Carl Mäsak puts it: "I'm
crashing Rakudo today, so that it won't crash for you tomorrow. That’s
how I like to think of it. There’s no way around it: someone has to go
first and clear the way with a machete. Software grows robust by being
tested and fixed a lot."
That was one of my main objectives in selecting a prize topic back in
May, 2006. November has already exceeded my hopes along these lines,
so I decided to make the award back in January of this year. We
delayed the public announcement to allow time for completing the
latest release of November, and for making the corresponding public
server upgrade.
More information about {the November wiki project, Rakudo Perl 6, and
related topics} can be found at the end of this note.
Carl has kindly provided the following overview of achievements, near
term plans, and long term vision.
== What has been done so far
Since it was unveiled to the world during YAPC::EU in August, the Perl
6 wiki engine called "November" has seen over 750 commits from mainly
three core developers. During that time, the wiki has matured from a
simple script to a family of modules, some of which have trickled into
other Perl 6 projects. As soon as Rakudo could precompile modules, we
added a build step, which led to a much-needed 17-fold speedup in page
loads.
November’s port of CPAN's HTML::Template was completely rewritten
using Perl 6 grammars. A tags/tagcloud feature was added. A subset of
the MediaWiki markup has been implemented. The beginnings of a set of
Perl 6 web modules were seen with the arrival of modules for
application-level URI dispatching. November was given a brand new
default stylesheet, and rewritten to be compatible with mod_perl6,
also currently in development. Using an improved version of Rakudo's
Test.pm, we added tests for all of our existing modules.
Today, the Perl 6 version of November can do user authentication,
editing, basic wiki formatting, recent changes, and pluggable layouts
and formatting engines.
== Plans for the next few months
November is usable today, but lacks many basic features usually
associated with a wiki engine. Specifically, we hope see images, per-
page revisions, line-by-line diffs, conflict merging, widget plugins,
formatting plugins, and RSS/Atom feeds added within the next half-year
or so.
During the past few weeks, a small ecosystem of Perl 6 projects has
started to take shape, mainly on github. To prevent code duplication
across projects, some modules will likely leave the November nest and
make homes of their own.
A simple installer (called "proto") has been created to install and
manage dependencies smoothly -- installing and setting up Parrot,
Rakudo, and November with all its dependencies can thus be done with a
single command, making November (and other Perl 6 projects) more
accessible for newcomers.
There are also plans to develop a one-stop Web module in Perl 6,
making it easier to create and deploy all types of web applications,
from almost-static pages to full-featured MVC-based web sites. When
this module is mature enough, November will be refitted to run on top
of it.
== Long-term vision
A fair amount of commits remain until November can be called "full-
featured", but when that happens, it is our hope that people will pick
it up, deploy it, enjoy it, and extend it.
November still has many, many commits to go before it can actually
trump other good wiki implementations out there in terms of desirable
features. However, it is our hope that it will continue to serve the
Perl 6 community in terms of catching bugs, exploring new language
patterns, and providing inspiration for novice Perl 6 hackers. One
day, it might well sport a set of features that other wiki
implementations can only dream of having. The Perl 6 language makes
such a vision seem quite probable.
== End of overview
Further information
The original version of this announcement:
http://www.AthenaLab.com/Perl_6_Wiki_Award.htm
The November page:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?november
Carl Mäsak’s blog:
http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/
The newly-designated primary site for Rakudo Perl 6 information (in
early set up stage):
http://rakudo.org/
The official Perl 6 wiki:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?perl_6
The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?the_long_perl_6_super_feature_list
Rakudo Perl 6 Feature Status:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo_feature_status
The origins of this $1,000 prize:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?conrad_schneiker#about_that_1_000_prize
PS: Thanks to {Andy Lester of http://perlbuzz.com/ and associates} for
setting up the official {Perl 5 and Perl 6} wikis in 2006, and to
{Paul Fenwick and associates} at
http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6 for earlier versions.
Best regards,
Conrad Schneiker
www.AthenaLab.com
Official Perl 6 Wiki — http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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