Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from February 2013
* "Craig A. Berry" <craig.a.berry@gmail.com> [2013-02-25T17:04:04] > And I don't see the need to formally threaten to pull the plug on > people just as they are getting started. That could be construed as > discouraging. A warning -- the first? -- was given in September of 2011. http://markmail.org/message/jjtloaarncwlsdwa Nothing seemed to come of it. I also contacted a number of people on and off perl5-porters who had expressed some interest in helping. Nothing came of that. Another warning, or rather a pointed to the earlier warning, was issued in January of 2012, after I took over from Jesse Vincent. http://markmail.org/message/tqwhdcehdkglhb2p A new warning was issued in February of 2013: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2013/02/msg1619.html ...which included: > I will provide more concrete dates in the coming weeks, but do not delay > waiting for concrete dates. Treat this as a last call. While I hope that people who want to keep Perl working on their platforms can and will do what is needed, it seems to me like it would be irresponsible to plan for the best. Either John, Karl, and anyone who works with them will get things back into a maintainable state (builds, smokeable, regular reports) or not. If not, either someone else will step up in time or not. I think this warning serves to bring more attention to the fact that this platform is at risk, so that other potential workers will be alerted that their help would be useful. This is a step to *get attention* for the problem so it can be addressed in the way most beneficial to everyone. It is not a blind march forward toward inevitable deletion. -- rjbsThread Previous | Thread Next