Re: The Official p5p FAQ

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, PerlFAQ Server <[email protected]> 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.

> =A0What's the pumpking?
> =A0 =A0The pumpking is the person who holds the patch pumpkin for Perl it=
self,
> =A0 =A0what other projects call the "release engineer". For perl 5.8, the
> =A0 =A0pumpking was Jarkko Hietaniemi. For perl 5.10, that was Hugo van d=
er
> =A0 =A0Sanden.

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
> =A0 =A0a new release for shorter terms. As of this writing, that person i=
s Jesse
> =A0 =A0Vincent.

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" ;-).