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I hate to be a party pooper, but I suspect some folk are thinking 6.0.0 is a couple months away. I'm pretty sure it's not.

This all began with the abstract of a FOSDEM talk scheduled for Jan 31st. The abstract says "2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially launches for production use".

I'm pretty sure no one from the Perl 6 project has said anything about officially launching for production use either now (according to hihowareyou82), or by Christmas 2014, or by February 2015 (according to carlosdelrey).

The above incorrect reddit announcements (and even the positive responses) were unfortunate (at best) to the degree folk believe(d) the given dates were accurate. And/or that the dates came from someone in the P6 project.

After carlosdelrey had posted "Perl-6 Release Promised Yet Again, This Time February 2015" to the half million subscriber /r/programming channel s/he read this exchange on #perl6: 

pmurias   TimToady: do we have an official "production ready" date?
TimToady  no, merely that 2015 will likely contain that date :)
* pmurias got confused by a troll claiming that we do have one in February and pointing to this talk ;)
TimToady  trolls cannot read

carlosdelrey's follow up, worded to try hang the February date on Larry, was beyond unfortunate.

Fwiw, I think the target date will end up being something close to the end of 2015, about a year from now. If I hear otherwise I'll update this comment.

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In reply to Re: It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas by raiph
in thread It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas by Old_Gray_Bear

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