On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 04:30:35PM -0800, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008, Nicholas Clark wrote:> > > > I have added the appended to perl589delta.pod. I was intending to mention it> > in the release announcement too. Is it accurate?> > > +We have only limited volunteer labour, and the maintenance burden is getting> > +increasingly complex. Hence this will be the last significant release of the> > +5.8.x series. Any future releases of 5.8.x will likely only be to deal with> > +security issues, and platform build failures. Hence you should look to> > +migrating to 5.10.x, if you have not started already.> > It would be nice to mark 5.10.0 as something else than "testing" by the time> this paragraph gets published. Maybe just bite the bullet, mark smart matching> as experimental and release 5.10.1 soonish?
Surprisingly, over the lifetime of the DBIx::Class project I've actually
found users -do- pay attention to an "EXPERIMENTAL" label on a feature and
don't act like we killed their dog when it doesn't work perfectly.
I've yet to find the appropriate magic invocation to get more than a fraction
of them to test the dev releases though; if I ever do I'll be sure to pass
the technique on (or patent it and retire on the proceeds - either way ...)
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