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Re: [perl #75812] kill $1 broken in 5.12.1

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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
July 2, 2010 12:25
Subject:
Re: [perl #75812] kill $1 broken in 5.12.1
Message ID:
20100702192459.GB10406@puppy



On Fri  2.Jul'10 at 14:08:37 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:03:57AM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> > > And that when the cajoling stops, so does most of the activity. There's
> > > little or no breadth here. A lot of people are relying on very few people
> > > to actually do the work of reviewing and applying patches, fixing bugs,
> > > and organising and making releases.
> > 
> > That's why I'd like to see part of the responsibilities of the monthly
> > release manager include the review of commits for cherry picking.
> > (Admittedly, I'm not doing a very good job of that this month so far.)
> >  That's an extra bit of work, but given that perldelta construction
> > seems to consist of commit-by-commit review anyway, it's only an extra
> > step to an existing process.
> 
> Yes, to my mind this is a good idea.

Given that sometimes our release engineers are relative newbies to the
core, I don't want to depend on that. But I do encourage it.

. . o  O { I wonder if we could give cherrymaint a leaderboard and
weekly summary }


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