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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:09:06AM -0700, 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.
But if cpantesters contain results based on perls built directly from
blead rather than from tagged releases, then the results will be polluted
no matter when we bump the version.
For example, once 5.28 is released, if cpantesters uses perls built from
the maint-5.28 branch, then there will be a whole series of reports against
"5.28.0" and "5.28.1" (depending on exactly when the version is bumped to
5.28.1 before the release), none of which correspond to either 5.28.0 nor
5.28.1, but to bits in between.
There is, however, a very good reason for bumping the version to 5.28.0
before 5.28.0 has been released. There is a lot of code, both in core and
in CPAN, that is version-sensitive. Having $] be 5.028000 now helps flush
out any bugs now, rather than after 5.28.0-RC1 has been released.
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