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diff --git a/skel/docs/CREDITS b/skel/docs/CREDITS
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-=pod
-
-    Following in the steps of other open source projects that
-    eventually take over the world, here is the partial list
-    of people who have contributed to Rakudo and its supporting
-    works.  It is sorted by name and formatted to allow easy
-    grepping and beautification by scripts.
-    The fields are: name (N), email (E), web-address (W),
-    description (D), repository username (U) and snail-mail
-    address (S).
-
-        Thanks,
-
-        The Rakudo Star Team
-        PS: Yes, this looks remarkably like the Linux CREDITS format
-        PPS: This file is encoded in UTF-8
-
-----------
-
-N: Carl Masak
-E: cmasak@gmail.com
-U: masak
-
-N: Jonathan Scott Duff
-U: perlpilot
-E: duff@pobox.com
-
-N: Jonathan Worthington
-U: jnthn
-E: jnthn@jnthn.net
-W: http://www.jnthn.net/
-
-N: Martin Berends
-E: mberends@autoexec.demon.nl
-D: Rakudo patch(es)
-
-N: Moritz Lenz
-E: moritz@faui2k3.org
-U: moritz
-U: moritz_
-D: Test infrastructure, tests, various Rakudo features and built-ins
-
-N: Patrick R. Michaud
-U: pmichaud
-D: Perl 6 (Rakudo Perl) lead developer, pumpking
-E: pmichaud@pobox.com
-
-N: Dave Olszewski
-E: cxreg@pobox.com
-U: cxreg
-D: Bugfixes and moral support
-
-N: Tadeusz Sośnierz
-E: tadzikes@gmail.com
-U: tadzik
-
-=cut
diff --git a/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf b/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf
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--- a/skel/docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf
+++ /dev/null
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.07
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--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.07
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-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  "Rakudo Star" is a distribution that includes
-release #31 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.6.0 of
-the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.  We
-plan to make Rakudo Star releases on a monthly schedule, with
-occasional special releases in response to important bugfixes or
-changes.
-
-Some of the many cool Perl 6 features that are available in this
-release of Rakudo Star:
-  * Perl 6 grammars and regexes
-  * formal parameter lists and signatures
-  * metaoperators
-  * gradual typing
-  * a powerful object model, including roles and classes
-  * lazy list evaluation
-  * multiple dispatch
-  * smart matching
-  * junctions and autothreading
-  * operator overloading (limited forms for now)
-  * introspection
-  * currying
-  * a rich library of builtin operators, functions, and types
-  * an interactive read-evaluation-print loop
-  * Unicode at the codepoint level
-  * resumable exceptions
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-
-Rakudo Star also bundles a number of modules; a partial list of
-the modules provided by this release include:
-  * Blizkost
-      - enables some Perl 5 modules to be used from within Rakudo Perl 6
-  * MiniDBI
-      - a simple database interface for Rakudo Perl 6
-  * Zavolaj
-      - call C library functions from Rakudo Perl 6
-  * SVG and SVG::Plot
-      - create scalable vector graphics
-  * HTTP::Daemon
-      - a simple HTTP server
-  * XML::Writer
-      - generate XML
-  * YAML
-      - dump Perl 6 objects as YAML
-  * Term::ANSIColor
-      - color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
-  * Test::Mock
-      - create mock objects and check what methods were called
-  * Math::Model
-      - describe and run mathematical models
-  * Config::INI
-      - parse and write configuration files
-  * File::Find
-      - find files in a given directory
-  * LWP::Simple
-      - fetch resources from the web
-
-These are not considered "core Perl 6 modules", and as module
-development for Perl 6 continues to mature, future releases
-of Rakudo Star will likely come bundled with a different set
-of modules. Deprecation policies for bundled modules will be
-created over time, and other Perl 6 distributions may choose
-different sets of modules or policies.  More information about
-Perl 6 modules can be found at http://modules.perl6.org/.
-
-Rakudo Star also contains a draft of a Perl 6 book -- see 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on August 24, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.08
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--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.08
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@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the August 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the August 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The August 2010 Star release includes release #32
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.7.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * Nil is now undefined
-  * Many regex modifiers are now recognized on the outside of regexes
-  * Mathematic and range operations are now faster (they're still slow,
-    but they're significantly faster than they were in the previous release)
-  * Initial implementations of .pack and .unpack
-  * MAIN can parse short arguments
-  * Removed a significant memory leak for loops and other repeated blocks
-
-This release (temporarily?) omits the Config::INI module that was
-included in the 2010.07 release, as it no longer builds with the 
-shipped version of Rakudo.  We hope to see Config::INI return soon.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on September 28, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.09 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.09
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index 5fac9da..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.09
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the September 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the September 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The September 2010 Star release includes release #33
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.8.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * Several performance improvements have been implemented;
-    notably in the slurp() and reverse() functions
-  * The series operator has been refactored and updated to the current 
-    specification
-  * Temporal objects (DateTime, Date, Instant, and Duration) are now 
-    completely implemented
-  * Enumeration objects now conform much closer to the specification
-  * 'now' and 'time' are now terms instead of functions.  This means
-    you can write 'time - 1' and it will do what you mean, but
-   'time()' is no longer valid.
-  * The Perl 6 specification tests [3] are now included in the distribution.
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on October 26, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.10 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.10
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--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.10
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the October 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the October 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The October 2010 Star release includes release #34
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.9.1 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * A simple implementation of 'require'
-  * Local timezone is available in $*TZ
-  * Implementations of ms// ss/// (samespace)
-  * Speed improvements to Str.flip
-  * Hyperoperator versions of +=
-  * Improved diagnostic messages and warning messages
-  * True and False now stringify properly
-  * Attribute modification via introspection
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on November 23, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.11 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.11
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.11
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the November 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the November 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The November 2010 Star release includes release #35
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.10.1 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * qw// is implemented
-  * The .trans method is 5x faster
-  * Indexing with ranges and Whatever offsets now works
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed
-in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned 
-release of Rakudo Star will be on December 28, 2010.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
-[3] http://github.com/perl6/roast
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2010.12 b/skel/docs/announce/2010.12
deleted file mode 100644
index 67d088f..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2010.12
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the December 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the December 2010 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The December 2010 Star release includes release #36
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.11.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * New .trans algorithm
-  * Configuration improvements
-  * More bug fixes
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a
-"Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release.  Some of the not-quite-there
-features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Starting with the January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be
-created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important
-bug fixes or improvements.  The next planned release of Rakudo Star
-will be on January 25, 2011.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.01
deleted file mode 100644
index be3c8a3..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.01
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the January 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the January 2011 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The January 2011 Star release includes release #37
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.0.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * faster subroutine calls (type cache)
-  * implemented 'handles Rolename' trait
-  * 'use Devel::Trace' debugging pragma
-  * improved parsing of keyword boundaries
-  * faster .comb
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Starting with this January 2011 release, Rakudo Star releases will be
-created on a three-month cycle, or as needed in response to important
-bug fixes or improvements.  (The Rakudo compiler will continue with
-monthly releases.)  The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be 
-in April 2011.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.04
deleted file mode 100644
index c441c12..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.04
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the April 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the April 2011 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6.  We know that
-it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
-there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
-that aren't implemented yet.  But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form
-is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications
-and exploring a great new language.  These "Star" releases are
-intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow
-the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the
-Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The April 2011 Star release includes release #40
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.3.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * Modules MiniDBI, form, HTTP::Daemon, Yaml and Module::Tools are
-    removed in this release. 
-  * New modules Pies (including panda, the module installer) and 
-    HTTP::Server::Simple have been added.
-  * New implementation of IO::Socket::INET, with basic IPv6 support
-  * -p and -n command-line options are now available
-  * Many new IO improvements, including stat-related methods
-  * New --ll-backtrace command-line switch for printing PIR level stack traces
-  * Preliminary implementation of Infix 'orelse'
-  * Added Str.indent
-  * Bugfixes to negation meta operator
-  * Support for complex conjugation
-    
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-Rakudo Star releases are created on a three-month cycle, or as 
-needed in response to important bug fixes or improvements.  
-(The Rakudo compiler will continue with monthly releases.)  
-The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be in July 2011.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2011.07
deleted file mode 100644
index b51858b..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2011.07
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the July 2011 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
-distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2011 release is
-available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPCOMING RELEASES: This is the last Rakudo Star 
-release to use a compiler from the current "master" branch of Rakudo.
-For the past several months, Rakudo compiler development has
-primarily occurred in a separate "nom" ("New Object Model") branch of 
-its repository.  Shortly after this release, the "nom" branch will 
-become the new "master" branch and will be the source for future 
-compiler and Star releases.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  The July 2011 Star release includes release #43
-of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.6.0 of the Parrot 
-Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation,
-and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-The Rakudo team plans to issue another distribution release
-in August 2011 based on the new "nom" compiler.  The new
-compiler contains many improvements over the current line
-of development (including vastly improved performance), but also 
-will not be 100% backwards-compatible due to changes in the 
-Perl 6 language specification and elimination of some workarounds.  
-Existing Rakudo Star users looking for stability should continue 
-to use the July 2011 release as the new distribution releases 
-stabilize over the next several months.
-
-Details about deprecations and migration guidelines will be
-provided in future releases and on rakudo.org .
-
-This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the
-previous Star release:
-  * 10%-30% improvement in compile and execution speed
-  * New gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators
-  * Int.base
-  * Call counter for Perl 6-level subroutines
-  * Better handling of &infix:<=> right associativity
-  * Fix bug in exponentiation of negative numbers
-  * Fix building on systems with smaller RAM
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * nested package definitions
-  * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack
-  * typed arrays
-  * macros
-  * state variables
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * most of Synopsis 9
-  * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2011.07 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.01 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.01
deleted file mode 100644
index 44b1f11..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.01
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,122 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the January 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the January 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release #48 of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 3.11 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Significantly, this is the first distribution release based on the
-"nom" (New Object Model) development branch of Rakudo. This work
-has been carried out with the aim of increasing performance and
-correctness, as well as providing a better base for taking on a
-range of missing features. Here are some of the major improvements
-in this release over the previous distribution release.
-
-* Greatly improved performance in many areas. For some scripts, this
-  release offers an order of magnitude performance improvement.
-
-* POD6 support, including the $=POD variable to make the POD available
-  at runtime and a --doc option to get at the POD
-
-* The Int type now has big integer semantics
-
-* Initial work on native types, which can be used to write much
-  more efficient code
-  
-* LTM-driven protoregexes
-
-* Meta-programming support, including custom meta-classes, overriding
-  method dispatch and much more
-  
-* Exception handling is much closer to the specification, and thus much
-  more useful
-
-* Better package handling, including true separate compilation, lexical
-  packages and better nested package handling
-
-* An optimizer, which improves generated code as well as catching
-  a range of issues at compile-time that previously made it to runtime
-
-* Backslash sequences in character classes
-
-* Stubbed methods from roles are now required, providing interface
-  style functionality
-
-* Typed arrays and hashes, as well as supporting for binding to
-  array and hash elements
-
-Due to improvements in the Perl 6 language specification, and
-changes to Rakudo to track them, some existing code will need
-changes. Here are some of the major differences to be aware of.
-
-* Attributes can no longer be initialized using "new" unless they
-  are declared as having an accessor; either give them one or write
-  a BUILD submethod
-
-* The proto keyword is no longer used to declare a multi-dispatch
-  fallback
-
-* You may no longer do 'filename'.lines; use 'filename'.IO.lines
-
-We have maintained backwards compatibility with some changed pieces
-of syntax, but will drop them in an upcoming release:
-
-* "<...>" in proto regex bodies; now this should be written "*"
-
-* The use of "**" with a separator in regexes; this is now done by
-  using "%" or "%%" on another quantifier
-
-While this release does contain a great number of improvements,
-unfortunately we have regressed in a few places. Of note:
-
-* Some cases of auto-vivification do not work
-
-* The binding of a capture against a signature literal is
-  broken
-  
-We will be working to restore this functionality for future
-Rakudo Star releases; if you depend heavily on it, you may
-wish to stick with the previous Rakudo Star release for
-another month. 
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * pack and unpack
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.01 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.02 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.02
deleted file mode 100644
index a32f5da..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.02
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the February 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the February 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release #49 of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.1 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* The FatRat type is implemented, and Rat arithmetic now properly
-  defaults to Num if the denominator is too big
-
-* Object hashes are implemented, and can be declared with the syntax
-  my %h{Any} (for a hash with keys of type Any)
-
-* The <Some::Grammar::rulename> syntax is now implemented in regexes;
-  <foo> can also be used to call predeclared lexical rules
-
-* The Int($x) coercion syntax is implemented
-
-* &rename and &copy are now implemented
-
-* Improvements to the reduction meta-operator (order of magnitude faster,
-  some parsing issues fixed)
-
-* The <prior> regex built-in is now available, and matches whatever the
-  last successful match matched
-
-* A $match.make(...) method is available to set the AST for a match
-  object not stored in the $/ variable
-
-* Improved backtraces
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown
-as typed exceptions.
-
-Due to continued evolution of and convergence with the Perl 6 spec, there
-are some changes to existing functionality that may affect your code:
-
-* You may no longer use the $.x form in submethods and attribute
-  initializers, as per spec; use the non-virtual $!x instead.
-
-* The LHS of the xx operator is now thunked
-
-* .conjugate is now called .conj
-
-* Enumeration values .gist to just the key, not the full name
-
-* An empty Buf is now False in boolean context
-
-Currently, we have maintained backwards compatibility with some
-changed pieces of syntax, but will drop them in an upcoming release:
-
-* "<...>" in proto regex bodies; now this should be written "*"
-
-* The use of "**" with a separator in regexes; this is now done by
-  using "%" or "%%" on another quantifier
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * pack and unpack
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.02 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.04
deleted file mode 100644
index 3acad8c..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.04
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the April 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the April 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.04.1 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.3 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* much improved startup time
-
-* much more robust module precompilation
-
-* autovivification for arrays and hashes is implemented again
-
-* many phasers like PRE, POST and REDO are now implemented
-
-* improved support for calling C functions and modelling structs and arrays
-  via NativeCall.pm6
-
-* now includes modules URI, LWP::Simple, jsonrpc and Bailador (a Perl 6 port
-  of Dancer)
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. Many more exceptions are thrown
-as typed exceptions.
-
-Some notable incompatible changes from the previous release include
-
- * the 'lib' directory is not included in the default module search path
-   anymore.  You can manipulate the search path with the PERL6LIB environment
-   variable
-
- * 'defined' used to be a prefix operator, and is now a regular subroutine.
-   This means you must updated code that relies 'defined' taking only one
-   argument. For example 'defined $x ?? $a !! $b' should be written as
-   '$x.defined ?? $a !! $b' or 'defined($x) ?? $a !! $b'.
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-  * pack and unpack
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.04 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.04.1
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.05 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.05
deleted file mode 100644
index d6f2575..0000000
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the May 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the May 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.05 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.4 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* -I and -M command-line options
-* support for non-Int enums
-* 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name
-* 'import' now works
-* basic support for Version literals
-* %*ENV now propagates into subprocesses
-* basic implementation of pack and unpack ported from 'ng' branch
-* fff flip-flop operator is now implemented, ff has been improved
-* various new regex features and improvements
-
-Rakudo now also includes the lib.pm module.
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown
-as typed exceptions.
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.05 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.05
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.06
deleted file mode 100644
index 0384ded..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.06
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the June 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the June 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.06 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.5 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Here are some of the major improvements in this release over the
-previous distribution release.
-
-* Transitive longest-token matching in protoregexes
-
-* Longest token matching for alternations
-
-* Enhanced list and .map handling, including laziness fixes and performance
-  improvements
-
-* Can use an argument list with require
-  
-* Compile time errors in loaded modules now show a module loading backtrace
-
-* String to number conversion now recognizes radix notation
-
-* The &push and &unshift functions can now autovivify
-
-* Rakudo is now compiled with the same regex engine that user-space
-  regexes use; some parsing bugs are fixed as a result
-
-* p6doc is now shipped with Rakudo Star. It is a small collection of 
-  user-oriented documentation, along with the `p6doc` script for viewing
-  them.
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed
-exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly
-report line numbers.
-
-This release contains an important breaking change to number parsing.
-Previously, a string such as "foo" would numify to 0. Now this will
-return a Failure.
-  
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.06 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.06
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.07
deleted file mode 100644
index d8f5d56..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.07
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the July 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the July 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.07 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Some of the new features added to this release include:
-
-* Built-in metaobjects (e.g. Metamodel::ClassHOW) now inherit from Any
-
-* &open now supports the :enc/:encoding option
-
-* anonymous subset types (e.g., 'subset :: of Int where { $_ > 0 }')
-
-* Rakudo Star now ships with the Template::Mojo module
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed
-exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly
-report line numbers.
-
-Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the
-implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing
-Perl 6 code.  The following features have been deprecated or modified
-due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed
-or changed as follows:
-
-* IO::File and IO::Dir will go away, and &dir now returns values of type
-  IO::Path (which is currently the superclass of IO::File and IO::Dir).
-  The return values of &dir will still stringify to the base name of the
-  returned file and directory names, and you can call .path on them to
-  obtain the full path.
-
-* Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be
-  converted to <.ws> .  For existing regexes that expect this conversion,
-  add a <?> in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The ?-quantifier on captures in regexes currently binds the capture
-  slot to a List containing either zero or one Match objects; i.e., it
-  is equivalent to "** 0..1".  In the future, the ?-quantifier will
-  bind the slot directly to a captured Match or to Nil.  Existing code
-  can manage the transition by changing existing ?-quantifiers to
-  use "** 0..1", which will continue to return a List of matches.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 .
-
-* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints
-  in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a
-  given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes .
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by
-  Str.tc.
-  No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first.
-
-* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal
-  subroutine.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of
-  characters/codepoints.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.07 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.07
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08 b/skel/docs/announce/2012.08
deleted file mode 100644
index f734c36..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/announce/2012.08
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
-announce the August 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
-usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the August 2012
-release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
-A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo star will usually appear in
-the downloads area shortly after the tarball release.
-
-In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language 
-("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
-"Rakudo Perl".  This Star release includes release 2012.08 [0] of the
-Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.6 of the Parrot Virtual
-Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-Some of the new features added to this release include:
-
-This release also contains a range of bug fixes, improvements to error
-reporting and better failure modes. More exceptions are thrown as typed
-exceptions, and more meta-model errors have been fixed to properly
-report line numbers.
-
-Starting with this release, we will also identify changes to the
-implementation or specification that can cause breakages in existing
-Perl 6 code.  The following features have been deprecated or modified
-due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed
-or changed as follows:
-
-[TODO: update the below list]
-
-* IO::File and IO::Dir will go away, and &dir now returns values of type
-  IO::Path (which is currently the superclass of IO::File and IO::Dir).
-  The return values of &dir will still stringify to the base name of the
-  returned file and directory names, and you can call .path on them to
-  obtain the full path.
-
-* Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be
-  converted to <.ws> .  For existing regexes that expect this conversion,
-  add a <?> in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The ?-quantifier on captures in regexes currently binds the capture
-  slot to a List containing either zero or one Match objects; i.e., it
-  is equivalent to "** 0..1".  In the future, the ?-quantifier will
-  bind the slot directly to a captured Match or to Nil.  Existing code
-  can manage the transition by changing existing ?-quantifiers to
-  use "** 0..1", which will continue to return a List of matches.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release, but may end up in 2012.09 .
-
-* The method Str.bytes will be removed. To get the number of codepoints
-  in a string, use .codes instead. To get the number of bytes in a
-  given encoding, use $str.encode($encoding).bytes .
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.lcfirst will be removed without replacement.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The method Str.ucfirst will eventually be removed, and replaced by
-  Str.tc.
-  No schedule yet, depends on having tc implemented first.
-
-* 'abs' is currently a prefix operator, and will be changed to a normal
-  subroutine.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-* The integer argument to IO::Socket.recv will be interpreted as number of
-  characters/codepoints.
-  Scheduled for the 2012.08 release.
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not
-yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming
-releases.  Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
-  * macros
-  * threads and concurrency
-  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
-  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
-  * non-blocking I/O
-  * much of Synopsis 9
-
-There is a new online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo Star
-2012.08 and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are
-many that we've missed.  Bug reports about missing and broken
-features are welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about 
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
-materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
-An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as 
-<docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors
-for making Rakudo Star possible.  If you would like to contribute,
-see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
-mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
-
-[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.08
-[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt b/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b8d104..0000000
--- a/skel/docs/cheatsheet.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-Perl 6 cheat sheet v2                                                »ö«
-
-SIGILS    MAJOR/MINOR CONTEXTS         ACCESS ARRAYS      HASHES
-$scalar   item   list       sink       whole: @array[]    %hash{}
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-%hash      Num    lazy/eager/hyper       (or)             %hash<a>
-&code      Bool                        slice: @array[0,2] %hash{'a','b'}
-                       COMPOSERS         (or)             %hash<a b>
-TWIGILS                [ ] array
-$normal-lexical        { } block/hash     AUTOMATIC DEREFERENCE
-$?compiler-constant    < > quotewords     &($foo)(1,2)     == $foo(1,2)
-$*dynamic-or-global    (,) parcel         @($foo)[1]       == $foo[1]
-$.public-accessor      :() signature      %($foo){'bar'}   == $foo<bar>
-$!private-attribute    \() capture        @(@($foo)[1])[2] == $foo[1][2]
-$^positional-param
-$:named-parameter         CONTROL SYNTAX
-$=pod-info                for LIST { }                # implicit $_ arg
-$<named-match-capture>    for LIST -> $a, $b { }      # explicit args
-$~slang-variable          while/until EXPR { }
-                          repeat while/until EXPR { } # do at least once
-OPERATOR PRECEDENCE       loop { }   loop (a;b;c) { } # parens required!
-.method .[] i             if EXPR { } elsif EXPR { } else { }
-++ --                     unless EXPR { }             # no else allowed!
-**                        given EXPR { when EXPR { } default { } }
-unary + - ~ ! ? ^         EXPR if EXPR for LIST;    # list comprehension
-* / % %% div              next, last, redo            # loop controls
-+ -                       proceed, succeed            # switch controls
-x xx       TYPES
-~          Bool Bit Int Rat FatRat UInt Num Complex int32 complex64 etc.
-&          Str Cat Blob Char Byte Codepoint Grapheme Buf buf8 buf32 utf8
-| ^                               IO Mu Any Cool Junction Whatever Match
-sleep abs sin temp                              Parcel Capture Signature
-<=> leg cmp .. but          SCOPE DECLARATORS         Pair Range Set Bag
-~~ > == gt eq === eqv !op   my  lexical scope      KeyHash KeySet KeyBag
-&&                         our  package scope     Scalar Array Hash Code
-|| ^^ // min max           has  instance scope       Enum Order TrigBase
-??!! ff                   anon  no scope at all        Block Routine Sub
-= := op= =>              state  persistent lexical          Method Regex
-so not                 augment  benign parasitic       Failure Exception
-, :                  supersede  deadly parasitic        Instant Duration
-X Xop Z Zop ...                                            Date DateTime
-say die map etc.  OPERATOR DOMAINS
-and               Numeric: ==  !==(!=) + <      >     <=> <=     >=
-or xor            Stringy: eq  !eq(ne) ~ lt     gt    leg le     ge
-<== ==>             Value: eqv  !eqv     before after cmp !after !before
-                 ObjectID: ===  !===
-METAOPERATORS                         LINKS      IRC
-[op] reduce listop to A op B op C...  perl6.org  #perl6 irc.freenode.net
-op=  A = A op B                       rakudo.org #parrot irc.perl.org
-!op  !(A op B)
-»op« hyper/vectorize    REGEX  METACHARS          REGEX MODIFIERS
-Zop  zip with op        ^ $    string begin/end   :i   ignore case
-Xop  cross with op      ^^ $$  line begin/end     :m   ignore marks
-Rop  reverse args       +      one or more        :g   global
-Sop  sequentialize      *      zero or more       :r   ratchet
-                        ?      zero or one        :s   sigspace
-SPECIAL VARIABLES       **1..3 repeat in range    :4th nth occurrence
-$_     current topic    ()     capture to $0,$1   :4x  n times
-$/     regex result     []     no capture
-$!     error object     <foo>  subrule          REGEX CHARCLASSES
-@*ARGS command line     <[]>   character class  .  == anychar, \N non \n
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-%*ENV  environment      ||     serial or        \d == <digit>, \D non
-$*PID  process id       « »    word boundary    \w == <+alpha+digit+[_]>