I don't think the decision has been made so far. At this point, it is a proposal by one (or possibly several) individual(s) whom I very much respect.
And it is definitely not going to hapopen this week (and quite probably not this month). Even though my opinion on the subject is probably irrelevant to most people, I want to say for the record that I'm personally not in favor of a name change, as I'm afraid that this will make things even more complicated than they currently are. Perl 6 has been known under this name for almost 20 years by now, giving it a new name now might just blur everything in the mind of most people. "The ship has sailed," as they say. I'm afraid that changing the name today might actually become a marketing disaster. And I am not saying that as an author of one of the Perl 6 books, my concern is really not to lose sales on my book (if it were, my book wouldn't be freely available on-line and open source). At the same time, I can certainly understand some of the arguments for a name change. Having said that, I should add that if the name should really change, I think Camelia is probably the least bad idea that I can think of. Cheers, Laurent. Le mar. 13 août 2019 à 21:46, William Michels via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> a écrit : > I've put up two name suggestions for Perl 6: > > NUPERL: > www.nuperl.org www.nuperl.com www.nuperl.net > > NEUPERL: > www.neuperl.org www.neuperl.com www.neuperl.net > > Specifics: > https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81#issuecomment-520960546 > > I'm not sure why this decision has to be made now. A number of good > books just released under the "Perl 6" name, so those authors will > lose sales traction. But if a name-change is inevitable, it seems that > the 5 year anniversary of the release of Perl 6 is coming up on > Christmas Day, 2020. Why not then? > > I's primary season and election season in the US, so if someone wants > to put up a Doodle-Poll, this might be fun. We can get a better idea > of how popular the names Camelia, Raku, ofun, Nuperl, Neuperl, > larrylang, Albus, Perlsix, Zeta, etc. are.... . > > https://beta.doodle.com/free-poll > > Otherwise, why this month? Why this week? >
