Please consider adding perldelta entries for any work committed during
the last month in the next couple of days: Perl 5.27.6 is due to be
released on Monday (November 20).
And a reminder regarding a recent decision made on perldelta updates,
courtesy
of Karl Williamson:
> At the core hackathon [last month], we took some steps to address this...
>
> It is now the committer's responsibility to make sure there is a
perldelta entry for the commit. This may entail going back to the author
to get one. For a merge commit, the final commit before the merge should
be a perldelta entry.
>
> Not all commits need a perldelta entry. We decided that the commit
message should be decorated with a brief indication as to the committer's
view on this when no perldelta change is included.
>
> There wasn't a decision as to the exact nature of this decoration. I am
hereby proposing that it should be
>
> NPD
>
> on a line by itself at or very near the bottom of the commit message (No
Perl Delta). At negligible overhead, this should lessen the number of
instances where the RM has to worry about missing entries.
thank you!
your friendly newbie porter,
Karen Etheridge
ether@cpan.org
the last month in the next couple of days: Perl 5.27.6 is due to be
released on Monday (November 20).
And a reminder regarding a recent decision made on perldelta updates,
courtesy
of Karl Williamson:
> At the core hackathon [last month], we took some steps to address this...
>
> It is now the committer's responsibility to make sure there is a
perldelta entry for the commit. This may entail going back to the author
to get one. For a merge commit, the final commit before the merge should
be a perldelta entry.
>
> Not all commits need a perldelta entry. We decided that the commit
message should be decorated with a brief indication as to the committer's
view on this when no perldelta change is included.
>
> There wasn't a decision as to the exact nature of this decoration. I am
hereby proposing that it should be
>
> NPD
>
> on a line by itself at or very near the bottom of the commit message (No
Perl Delta). At negligible overhead, this should lessen the number of
instances where the RM has to worry about missing entries.
thank you!
your friendly newbie porter,
Karen Etheridge
ether@cpan.org