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I have just pushed a set of changes to steveh/maintpolicy which update our policies w.r.t maintenance releases. I hope that these changes address the issues raised during various discussions on this list in the run up to the release of 5.20.2. Specifically, I'm thinking of these three threads: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg224162.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2014/12/msg224120.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/01/msg224680.html Please have a look if you're interested in these things. I think the changes are fairly modest, but hopefully capture the main thoughts that people were expressing. In a nutshell, the lists of acceptable/unacceptable changes are essentially unchanged, but the wording now emphasizes that it may not be desirable to cherry-pick every eligible change, and states which types of change are the most important ones to focus on. In future I intend to heed this new emphasis, and accordingly draw up a much shorter list of proposals for 5.20.3. I hope that a much less daunting list of proposals will reduce the difficulty in getting the required number of votes on the ones that really matter and possibly reduce risk slightly in the process, but not affect how worthwhile the contents of maintenance releases are.Thread Next