Want Perl 5.12.0 soon?

Posted by ajt on Tue 13 Oct 2009 at 12:53

From Jesse via perl.perl5.porters: Turning blead into a stable release of Perl is a lot of work. Doing it well is even more work. As it looks like we're coming to a consensus on a smaller set of changes making it into point releases, it's increasingly important that our .0 releases are well tested, well polished and good enough to run in production. To that end, it's really important that we work through the perlbug queue to identify issues which might block the release of 5.12.0.

An overview of perlbug is at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/perl5/Overview.html

I need some volunteers to comb through the RT queues to identify:

issues that are no longer a problem in current blead
- If you have the ability to edit tickets in perlbug, record your findings and resolve the ticket. If you don't have the ability to edit tickets in perlbug, send me email formatted like this:
  - 1234: This is the bug subject Tested on 5.11.0 - no longer exhibits the failing behaviour.
  - 12345: This is some perlbug User didn't actually describe an issue.
issues that might block the release of 5.12.0
- If you have the ability to edit tickets in perlbug, make ticket #69710 depend on blockers.
- If not, send me mail with the subject: "5.12 blockers" and a body with ticket ids and subjects - one per line:
  - 12346: 5.10.0 ate my kitten
  - 12347: Using 5.10.0, I found mysterious kittens in my software

Thanks, Jesse

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