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Re: 5.8.2 perldelta
From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
October 29, 2003 02:10
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 perldelta
Message ID:
20031028230229.GC22897@penkwe.pair.com
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:40:00PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> =head1 Future Directions
>
> Starting with 5.8.3 I intend to make more frequent maintenance releases,
> with a smaller number of changes in each. The intent is to propagate
> bug fixes out to stable releases more rapidly and make upgrading stable
> releases less of an upheaval. Hopefully this will give end users more
> flexibility in their choice of upgrade timing, and allow them easier
> assessment of the impact of upgrades. The current plan is for code freezes
> as follows
>
> =over 4
>
> =item *
>
> 5.8.3 23:59:59, Wednesday December 31st 2003
>
> =item *
>
> 5.8.4 23:59:59, Wednesday March 31st 2004
>
> =item *
>
> 5.8.5 23:59:59, Wednesday June 30th 2004
>
If the doc is going to be precise with the time, I think the time zone
needs to be specified.
Ronald