Change 13875 by jhi@alpha on 2001/12/24 16:47:30
Subject: perlhack.pod
From: "John P. Linderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 16:16:10 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/pod/perlhack.pod#44 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlhack.pod#44 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlhack.pod
--- perl/pod/perlhack.pod.~1~ Mon Dec 24 10:00:06 2001
+++ perl/pod/perlhack.pod Mon Dec 24 10:00:06 2001
@@ -37,12 +37,13 @@
releases of Perl are shepherded by a ``pumpking'', a porter
responsible for gathering patches, deciding on a patch-by-patch
feature-by-feature basis what will and will not go into the release.
-For instance, Gurusamy Sarathy is the pumpking for the 5.6 release of
-Perl.
+For instance, Gurusamy Sarathy was the pumpking for the 5.6 release of
+Perl, and Jarkko Hietaniemi is the pumpking for the 5.8 release, and
+Hugo van der Sanden will be the pumpking for the 5.10 release.
In addition, various people are pumpkings for different things. For
instance, Andy Dougherty and Jarkko Hietaniemi share the I<Configure>
-pumpkin, and Tom Christiansen is the documentation pumpking.
+pumpkin.
Larry sees Perl development along the lines of the US government:
there's the Legislature (the porters), the Executive branch (the
End of Patch.
