If noone else steps up, I would like to make an alpha release. My CPAN id is YVES, and github is 'demerphq'.
If you give me the relevant permissions I will get one rolled this week. Yves On 16 March 2013 01:42, Michael G. Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > > 5.18.0 needs a MakeMaker release in order to fix some hash order bugs. > Fortunately, its all already been patched in, its just a matter of us > putting out an alpha, testing it, and then putting out a stable. > > And I'm not doing it. Been doing it too long, I'm just getting in the > way. > > I'd like somebody to step up and offer to do the next stable. > > To that end, I've written down how to do it as best I can. > > Here's how you make a release, in general. > https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/wiki/How-To-Make-A-Release > > And here's the special considerations for a stable release. > https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/wiki/How-To-Make-A-Stable-Release > > An alpha release isn't much different from releasing any other CPAN > module. A stable release involves a bit more rigor, but that's mostly > reading CPAN Testers. And I'll be happy to be available as a resource > and answer questions and hold hands. > > So, who wants to make a MakeMaker release? > > > - -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: ExtUtils::MakeMaker > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:38:29 -0500 > From: Ricardo Signes <r...@cpan.org> > To: Michael Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> > > > Perl 5.18.0 is very likely to include improvements to hash traversal > randomness. Right now, I believe the only part of the core left that > has not > been patched in blead is ExtUtils::MakeMaker. I see at > > https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/commits/master > > that you've merged the work from Yves Oton to fix the bugs made > visible by the > changes to perl. Can we expect a release of EUMM more or less > immediately? > > If not, we'll apply these patches in blead and create a _0x version > number, > which I am really not eager to do. > > - -- > rjbs > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRQ7/qAAoJEJxzdbWzfct37rUH/RwHuCJcDdFydWoltV5tHVq4 > Rfk17hCN7ZZP3Bsd2GQT/0xRqqcycck4JGeHmtypZTtzCv9Eg3wlK67uWDasCogV > iSs/wHSyffx/25C0JKZ7Wjag1U//G+HLQSopTXnAf9PSmTM3o5eE46E/9DjcC29W > cf0K+NqgWk0vjW1Ez+XzOSBwki0EKz68MJxOf5lgwvs1yIt/Qjm62WCPmMdZRuNd > /WF2ojp+pCWD5Rat5rnpFricTQeUSEoJ7FF3y7fzpzVARRE1ujAgDOcACU0OgcC4 > ibHcYjGZQFU1S3d6F6mYKigxiMpEkCm/yj+TTs/sL9Nn0E/SsP630C2PJfTALQ8= > =umdv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
