There is nothing wrong, per se, with having a separate Perl 6 monks site, if that is what a lot of those folks want, and someone has the inclination to build it. But if that confluence of factors has not occurred yet, we, as the perl 5 community, cannot force it to happen. We -- the Perl community as a whole -- have, perhaps unconsciously, taken the YAGNI approach. Building a separate P6monks site before there is a critical mass of P6 monks is like a kind of premature optimization. If and when the time comes that the Perl 6 community, as a distinct thing from the Perl 5 community, needs a separate community web site, they can build one.
My crystal ball is no worse than yours, and I predict that there will come a tipping point (from 5 to 6), at which time this site will be truly moribund. (That is to say, the rumors of its demise will no longer be exaggerations.) At that time, we might even find perl 5 slingers "freeloading" on the perl 6 community site. I for one would be willing to do that, because -- I predict -- that site will be sound in a lot of the ways that this site is broken.
I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16 ,000 zombies.
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