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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:32:32AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: > > Finally, 5.16.1 is unblocked. I can't tell you how relieved I am. > > In the course of investigating some unrelated and spurious reports, we > discovered a surprising little bug. In short, C< require ::foo > acted like C< > require "/foo.pm" > instead of searching only in @INC. And has done this all the way back to perl 5.000 4.036 is not affected. > done, I hope to spend a little time lying atop a warm rock. Plenty of warn rocks in the UK right now, *finally*. Given that the previous 3 months of rain here was caused by a wedged jetstream, does this mean that the US heatwave is now also over? > Thanks for your patience during this unexpected and unexplained delay of > maint-5.16. I think no one is more pleased than I to have things moving once > again. It also makes me wonder going forward what the best way for me to account for this on weekly reports is, given that the whole thing (a) can and does take longer than a week (or even a month) and (b) often has sufficient hours that it's very obvious if it shows up on a report but isn't discussed.* (This one emerged a month ago yesterday, and has taken quite a bit of time to investigate.) It's potentially going to cause alarm if the report says "security report", because it could be anything from "no, it's not" to "OMG, pwnies", and some people will (understandably) suspect the worst. Whereas my impression is that what is needed for dealing successfully with a messy issue is no publicity, until the co-ordinated response is ready to roll. Nicholas Clark * pseudonym or not. paging Inspector Sands. paging Inspector Sands.Thread Previous | Thread Next