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On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote: > Based on that discussion, these are the ground rules for future maint > releases of Perl: ++100 # Great news, great list! > Any committer may cherry-pick any commit from blead to maint-5.12 if > they send mail to perl5-porters announcing their intent to cherry-pick > a specific commit along with a rationale for doing so and at least two > other committers respond to the list giving their assent. (This policy > applies to current and former pumpkings, as well as other committers.) That sounds reasonable. Perhaps a Changes list should be updated for each commit, too, as relevant, so that it's not so hard to re-assemble the list of changes before release? > Perl 5.12.x release schedule: > > It's fairly common to find minor but annoying issues in a new major > release of Perl just a couple days after we ship a .0 release. > It is my intent to release Perl 5.12.1 roughly one month after we > release 5.12.0. This will mean freezing for 5.12.1-RC1 roughly 3 weeks > after we release 5.12.0. This, obviously, isn't much time, but with the > new policies on what goes into maint and allowing porters to share the > cherry-picking load, it's my hope and belief that it's not an > implausible task. > > It is my intent that 5.12.2, 5.12.3 and 5.12.4 will follow over the > course of the next year. I plan to freeze blead for the release of > Perl 5.14.0 early next spring. All sounds great, Jesse. Thanks for taking this camel by the hump! Best, DavidThread Previous | Thread Next