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Re: FAQ! Read this first!

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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
July 2, 2001 03:09
Subject:
Re: FAQ! Read this first!
Message ID:
200107021008.LAA29361@gizmo.fdgroup.co.uk
Simon Cozens <simon@netthink.co.uk> wrote:
> 4.1) What's a pumpking?
> 
> You didn't read Porting/pumpkin.pod, did you? :) A pumpking is the
> person who holds the patch pumpkin, the responsibility for co-ordinating
> patches on a specific area. You can find a (slightly coded) list of the
> current pumpkings at the end of AUTHORS in your Perl source kit - this
> maps people to areas, and MAINTAIN maps both people and areas to files in
> the kit.

Well, apart from the fact that there's no such list at the end of
AUTHORS, and that MAINTAIN was deleted circa @7476, this bit of the FAQ
is spot on ;-)

Dave.


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