Re: The Official p5p FAQ by Abigail

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:18:37PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, PerlFAQ Server <joe@example.com> wrote:
> > This is a test posting of the official p5p FAQ in
> > preparation for a periodic posting. It's not an automatic
> > posting yet.
>
> Sounds promising.
>
> >  What's the pumpking?
> >    The pumpking is the person who holds the patch pumpkin for Perl itself,
> >    what other projects call the "release engineer". For perl 5.8, the
> >    pumpking was Jarkko Hietaniemi. For perl 5.10, that was Hugo van der
> >    Sanden.
>
> Er, see perlhist. I think Hugo was going to do it, maybe did one
> 5.9.x development release, but had other obligations. Rafael actually
> did 5.10.0. And there have been maint pumpkings, but we're currently
> without any, so maybe that's not a FAQ.
>
> > Currently there is a new system whereby many people will pumpking
> >    a new release for shorter terms. As of this writing, that person is Jesse
> >    Vincent.
>
> I think this conflates the monthly release managers of development
> releases with the pumpking, who has overall responsibility for getting
> even-numbered releases out the door. Let's not give Jesse any ideas
> about "shorter terms" ;-).


Actually, the people doing the monthly releases have been mentioned in
perlhist, under "THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN".



Abigail