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commit 70324ce3dcb97447bcc15f032ee8ddfa9164ef1d
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:43:43 2015 +0000
maint policy: Note that some changes don't need voting on
Again, this is just a statement of the reality that I have experienced in
the course of releasing 5.20.1 and 5.20.2.
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commit eb5d05afdb6f158438dc487af09aa1dedc3685fe
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:41:43 2015 +0000
maint policy: Note that other voting mechanisms may be used instead of p5p
This simply reflects the reality of how 5.20.2's changes were voted on,
namely, by the use of the maint-5.20-votes branch.
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commit 101acf0c782819e20c87613681b8d643810ca500
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:29:36 2015 +0000
maint policy: Reword/expand the ambiguous "as few changes as possible"
phrase
This phrase caused much debate during the release of 5.20.2. A literal
interpretation of it would be just a version bump, which was clearly not
its intention. Debate ensued as to what was its real meaning, and the
consensus seemed to be that the list of "acceptable"/"unacceptable" types
of change was about right, but that not every eligible change should be
included. Not many committers are interested in reviewing a long list of
minor spelling corrections etc, causing a lack of interest in voting, and
an attendant risk of something important being missed amongst all the
"noise". The focus should mainly be on security / crash / regression /
installation issues, with the aim being to produce a worthwhile release
without needlessly increasing risk and/or burning people out. I hope the
new wording captures this.
M pod/perlpolicy.pod
commit d0a4fbe386b0804839a877f92a738e0f9b77ae91
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:20:09 2015 +0000
maint policy: Move paragraph about controversial changes
The point was also raised during discussions over whether to include
perlunicook.pod in 5.20.2 that exceptions can be made to the rules under
the terms of "Rule 2" and the fact that the pumpking is acting on Larry's
behalf. However, this is probably best left being implicit, rather than
explicitly stating it. Exceptions should be exceptional; we don't want to
encourage them!
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commit 352b2346a2a758d633221fc753e2b335e82bd328
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:10:50 2015 +0000
maint policy: Minor grammar and style change
M pod/perlpolicy.pod
commit a49f9b340804a8640795e344f8cfc04823b80a4b
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:09:33 2015 +0000
maint policy: Separate build/installation issues from test failures
Also clarify a what kind of build/installation "issue" we are referring to.
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commit 93237ae3b78810368efa7b9fbc0d272be91713a5
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 13:03:54 2015 +0000
maint policy: Note that old regressions are acceptable too
M pod/perlpolicy.pod
commit e96807cbb8418da0d0ea8a18c73ff54477391732
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 09:29:04 2015 +0000
maint policy: Put notes about CPAN modules in one place
M pod/perlpolicy.pod
commit 6b121482d1ae68f4903779179d6a9bce621bab42
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 09:24:02 2015 +0000
maint policy: No need to keep saying "are [NOT] acceptable" now
M pod/perlpolicy.pod
commit ef5c721dfbee165e6aef92cd69a21094d0c3b6a6
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 09:20:30 2015 +0000
maint policy: Sort acceptable/unacceptable lists into rough priority order
This commit makes no changes to any of the wording.
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commit 7ec522d26044f30cd322214315f7cd51befe4590
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 26 09:17:10 2015 +0000
maint policy: Separate acceptable/unacceptable changes into two litss
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