A Guide to the Pugs Repository for Rakudo Hackers  'pugs' is
more than the name of a perl 6 implementation, it's also a
source repository with many projects related to perl 6. the pugs
repository lives at http://svn.pugscode.org/. it's very easy to
get a commit bit: just ask on the perl6-users@perl.org or
perl6-compilers@perl.org mailing lists, or in #perl6 on
irc.freenode.net.  even as the pugs perl 6 implementation
languishes, awaiting ghc improvements and round tuits, past
achievements to its early success continue to benefit other perl
implementations. notably, the pugs test suite is undergoing
review, refactoring, and extension to become the official perl 6
test suite. recently, the official perl 6 specification (a.k.a.
the Synopses) was moved to the pugs repository, where it can be
reviewed and edited by the community. also, the standard perl 6
grammar lives in the pugs repository. each of these items is
critical to the successful rakudo hacker.  svn 1.5 provides
sparse checkouts, which eases retrieving