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demerphq
Date:
May 10, 2014 09:14
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Re: Fwd: [perl.git] branch yves/musings, created. v5.19.10-109-gad4fc4e
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On 10 May 2014 11:13, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 May 2014 01:23, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
>
>> * demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> [2014-05-06T11:06:55]
>> > These are the ones I would like to see cherry-picked:
>> >
>> > [ a bunch of Hash::Util stuff ]
>>
>> In general, this doesn't seem like it fits the guidelines for "stuff we
>> apply
>> while trying to get the release out the door."  Typo fixes in docs are
>> fair.
>> Changes to code that do not fix blockers are not.
>>
>
> The hash util changes are to diagnostics code useful and intended only for
> analysing our hash function.
>
> Anyway, I dont care much, I just think this policy should be more flexible
> than you make it out.
>
> Changes to something useful, sure, but changes to a script that calculates
> the average length of a bucket chain? Doesn't make sense to me.
>

Especially when we have a three month "no changes" block going on. :-(

Yves

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