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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
June 29, 2010 12:58
Subject:
Re: [perl #75812] kill $1 broken in 5.12.1
Message ID:
20100629195658.GJ18753@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:41:41PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:59:12PM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net> wrote:
> > > This is arguably a bug fix to 5.12 do we think it's worthy of a back port for 5.12.2?
> > 
> > +1 to cherry pick

+1 to cherry pick.

> > 
> > I'm not sure it alone is sufficient to prompt a 5.12.2 release, but if
> > one happens later this year, I think it should probably be included.
> 
> I thought that Jesse's plan was, barring unforeseen circumstances, to make a
> 5.12.2 release about 3 months after 5.12.1
> 
> However, in the interests of smoothness and smoking, I don't think that it's a
> good idea to wait until near the release date before merging lots of changes
> to the branch. Yet, right now that's what seems to be happening - everyone is
> leaving it to someone else to consider what should be merged into maint-5.12,
> and consequently it's rather "special biologist word", and would-be smokers
> are idle.
> 
> Does regular merge reviewing (and regular patch reviewing and regular bug
> reviewing) really not happen unless a pumpking does it, or a pumpking gently
> but repeatedly cajoles others to do it?

I do consider "gentle and repeated cajoling" to be in my job description
;)

Yes, I would hugely appreciate cherrypicking to happen over the course
of the next twoish months, so that there is not a patchfrenzy at the last
minute.

> Nicholas Clark
> 
> 

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