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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
April 25, 2018 19:09
Subject:
Re: Why does blead say 5.28?
Message ID:
1c1667ad-f506-4e29-c793-efb071a0e1d5@khwilliamson.com
On 04/25/2018 12:55 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> No, this is not the time for 5.28.0. This is a special case because we
> absolutely do not want to pollute the testers results database with
> tests against "5.28.0" that isn't actually that version. That leaves
> 5.27.12 as the only realistic value to use here, even though we know
> that release won't actually happen and it will turn into 5.28.0 instead.
It's already polluted, but we need to fix this ASAP to prevent future
pollution
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Curtis Jewell
> <perl@csjewell.fastmail.us <mailto:perl@csjewell.fastmail.us>> wrote:
>
> My understanding is that we change to the next version immediately
> after release of the previous one. Whether that is 5.27.12 or 5.28.0
> is a good question - if we aren't planning on a 27.12, then this was
> the correct time for 28.0. (I'm looking at what is currently near
> the top of https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/shortlog?pg=30
> <https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/shortlog?pg=30>, where the
> commit for the switchover to 5.26.0 was v5.25.12-7, and we started
> releasing RC's a month later.)
>
> As for how it was done,
> https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/999f678663d12737388c2458d58b37af627911d0
> <https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/999f678663d12737388c2458d58b37af627911d0>
> did it.
>
> Sawyer X, what say ye? Is my information correct?
>
> --
> Curtis Jewell
> csjewell@cpan.org <mailto:csjewell@cpan.org>
> http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/ <http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/>
> perl@curtisjewell.name <mailto:perl@curtisjewell.name>
> http://www.curtisjewell.name/
> "Your random numbers are not that random" -- perl-5.10.1.tar.gz/util.c
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, at 12:09, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> > Agreed, it should probably be 5.27.12, to avoid polluting the
> cpantesters
> > database with results for 5.28.0 that don't actually reflect the
> final
> > release build.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Karl Williamson
> <public@khwilliamson.com <mailto:public@khwilliamson.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > $ blead -v
> > >
> > > This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 0 (v5.28.0
> > > (v5.27.11-16-g71e845c342))
> > >
>
>
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