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The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 01 November 2006. The attendees were Larry, Damian, Allison, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic. Here are the minutes.

Larry:

• taking it really easy
• for the same reasons that I'm not going to Brazil
• making sure I'm here to answer questions that people have

Allison:

• decided last week to see what it would take to track the Parrot mailing list
• I look forward to this actually now
• managed to track the mailing list this week
• also released a collection of threading ideas
• not really a first draft
• enough to get people talking about the ideas
• going to house sit this Saturday in San Francisco

Damian:

• things are quiet
• took most of the week off to recover from the last three months
• turns out a week isn't quite enough

Larry:

• I hear you

Damian:

• didn't actually stop working; that would be silly
• did scale things back
• basically caught up on mail and outstanding module issues
• did read through the multi-dispatch document
• need to sit down with examples
• that's the usual way to deal with it

c:

• trying to get things ready for the Hackathon
• did more work to get Parrot::Embed to build
• have I mentioned that I hate C, and cross-platform C, and cross-platform relocatable dynamic linking
• have some thoughts on concurrency I'll post
• also keep thinking that Parrot needs a Smalltalky metamodel
• Perl 6 needs such a thing
• many languages can use similar customization
• shoving that down into Parrot will help

Jesse:

• circulating a list of Parrot milestones and subsystems
• trying to get responses; not getting many
• hopefully we'll get a better picture of where things are