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 Announce: Rakudo Perl development release #14 ("Vienna") 
 
-On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm please to announce
-the February 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #14 "Vienna".  
+On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
+the February 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #14 "Vienna".
 Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine.
 The tarball for the February 2009 release is available from
 
     http://www.pmichaud.com/perl6/rakudo-2009-02.tar.gz
 
-However, because of the rapid pace of Rakudo development and
-addition of new features, we still recommend that people wanting
-to use or work with Rakudo obtain the latest version directly
-from the main repository at github -- more on this in a bit.
+However, because of the rapid pace of Rakudo development and addition
+of new features, we still recommend that people wanting to use or work
+with Rakudo obtain the latest version directly from the main repository
+at github -- more on this in a bit.
 
-This is the fourteenth development release of Rakudo Perl 
-(thus the #14), but it's the first release independent from Parrot
-releases.  We will continue to follow a monthly release cycle, with 
-each release to be code named after a Perl Mongers group.  This release
-is named for the Vienna.pm (http://vienna.pm.org), who have been
-sponsoring Jonathan Worthington's work on Rakudo since April 2008.
-A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is 
-available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file.  In general, Rakudo
-development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each 
-Parrot monthly release.
+This is the fourteenth development release of Rakudo Perl, but it's
+the first release independent from Parrot releases.  We will continue
+to follow a monthly release cycle, with each release to be code named
+after a Perl Mongers group.  This release is named for Vienna.pm
+(http://vienna.pm.org), who have been sponsoring Jonathan Worthington's
+work on Rakudo since April 2008.  A list of the other planned release
+dates and codenames for 2009 is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod"
+file.  In general, Rakudo development releases are scheduled to occur
+two days after each Parrot monthly release.  Parrot releases the third
+Tuesday of each month.
 
-As mentioned earlier, Rakudo Perl has switched to using "git" and
-github.com for its version control system.  The main repository
-page is http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo ; the README file there
-is kept up-to-date with the latest instructions for obtaining
-and building Rakudo Perl.
+Rakudo Perl now uses git (http://git-scm.com/) for its version control
+system, hosted at http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo ; the README file
+there is kept up-to-date with the latest instructions for obtaining and
+building Rakudo Perl.
 
-In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major
-changes and improvements:
+In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes
+and improvements:
 
-* Rakudo is now passing 7076 spectests; this is an increase 
-  of 796 additional passing tests since the January 2009 release.
+* Rakudo is now passing 7076 spectests.  This is an increase of 796
+  passing tests since the January 2009 release.
 
 * The Configure.pl script supports a "--gen-parrot" option to
   automatically fetch and build the appropriate version of Parrot.
 
-* The default make target now builds a binary executable directly
-  ("perl6" or "perl6.exe").  Yes, it's still a Parrot "fakecutable", 
-  but we think we've made it more reliable so that it doesn't
-  generate segmentation faults on exits.  (If you don't know
-  what a "fakecutable" is you can safely ignore this.)
+* The default make target now builds a binary executable directly, either
+  perl6 or perl6.exe.  It's still a Parrot "fakecutable", but we think
+  we've made it more reliable so that it doesn't generate segmentation
+  faults on exits.  (If you don't know what a "fakecutable" is you can
+  safely ignore this.)
 
-* Many builtins are beginning to be written in pure Perl 6, or
-  Perl 6 functions with inline PIR.  These builtins are part of
-  the core "setting" for Perl 6, and appear in the src/setting/
-  directory.  Previously this was known as the "prelude".
+* Many builtins are beginning to be written in pure Perl 6, or Perl 6
+  functions with inline PIR.  These builtins are part of the core
+  "setting" for Perl 6, and appear in the src/setting/ directory.
+  Previously this was known as the "prelude".
 
 * Improved Test.pm diagnostic output.
 
@@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ Also, Rakudo now implements the following Perl 6 features:
 * min= and max= metaoperators.
 * Many many bugfixes and documentation improvements.
 
-The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Perl possible.  The next release of Rakudo (#15)
-is scheduled for March 19, 2009.
-
+The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
+making Rakudo Perl possible.  The next release of Rakudo (#15) is
+scheduled for March 19, 2009.