Dear Monks, I've been following the rakudo site http://rakudo.org/status
Looks like after the rakudo-ng re factor branch was merged into the master branch. Number of passing spec tests took a hit. If I'm not wrong it was only re factoring branch. By that definition, re factoring is only tuning of code without breaking the existing functionality. The fall in passing spec tests is a heart breaking site for people like me who defend Perl 6 despite its delay.

a) My question is why did the number of passing spec tests fall?

b) Given that we are already pretty late in producing a production release our fundamental priority must in making feature complete release, don't you think so?

c) If this refactoring attempt been avoided would have rakudo star seen more features going in?

d) Could the effort refactor have been used for adding more features and documentation.

e) Willn't so many failing test cases take more time to fix them?

In reply to rakudo-ng branch by Anonymous Monk

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