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Postings from April 2011
Over the last year I had been under the impression that Perl 5's scheduled releases included a stable release on an annual basis, meaning that the first Perl 5.14.0 release candidate would be out in the same month of the year as the first Perl 5.12.0 release candidate, and so on for 5.16.0 etc. But now that I look back at the actual historical releases, I'm wondering if you're actually working on a 13-month cycle, where the first 5.14.0 RC is intentionally the same month of the year as 5.13.0 was, and so 13 months after the first 5.12.0 RC. Is it intentional to actually be going at 13 month cycles for production releases, or did we get a 5.13.11 rather than 5.14.0RC in 2011 March because the dev team considered 5.13.x not ready for production? Regardless, I would prefer that the 5.16 first release candidate would aim to come out a year after the 5.14 one, so we go 5.14.0, then 5.15.0-10, then 5.16.0. That makes it easier to predict major production releases because those are at the same time every year rather than there being a drift. How reasonable is that? -- Darren DuncanThread Next