(I know chromatic's not really talking about me..., or at least I hope he's not :)

I thought about not using "we", but I decided to take on some of the blame. I was one of the original people in the room when we decided to do Perl 6. I was the guy who was supposed to work on promoting Perl 6 to the wider community.

I left the project when I realized that there wasn't a plan, people didn't want a plan, and we were basically marketing hype hoping that someone would come up with an implementation. We called it "the community's rewrite".

Since then, I've contributed in much more quiet, behind the scenes ways not directly related to the development. I'd still like to get a Perl 6 article into The Perl Review, but people haven't had interesting things to say about it (that we haven't heard before).

I'm not complaining about the Perl 6 process or how much we've accomplished. I'm ready to support whatever Perl 6 turns out to be. I'm not telling anyone what they should do to implement Perl 6 or what features should be in it. I'm ready to publish about it, write books about it, promote it, and so on. I'll gladly cheerlead whatever Perl 6 is. I'm ready to do my part (the same part I was going to do officially), but outside of the proper project.

My problem is people pretending that the process is working well and that people asking what's going on are complainers we should ignore. If you're producing something for other people to use, you should pay attention to your user base. Otherwise, use Python :)