On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:29:39PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> If there's a plan for 5.8.8, it goes roughly like this
> 
> 0: All changes that apply to maint are integrated from blead
> 
> 1: Changes should be in blead by midnight (GMT) on the 16th October 2005
> 
> 2: RC1 will probably appear within a week
> 
> 
> I'll be out of the country for the first week in October, and probably mostly
> incommunicado. I'll be in the country for the second week, but again mostly
> incommunicado. This definitely isn't a problem, as
> 
> a: how patches get into blead *isn't* my direct concern
> b: stable stuff isn't done as a last minute rush job
> 
> [You may read this as "if not being able to get patches into maint at the last
> minute worries you, then those patches will by definition worry me"]
> 
> Clearly if anyone wants to fix bugs in pseudohashes or 5005 threads, then
> those patches have to go direct to maint. But I believe that little else
> does.
> 

The only other exception would be changes to re-entrant functions through
reentr.pl, where the generated code is quite different than that in bleadperl.

Steve Peters
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  • 5.8.8 Nicholas Clark
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