Author: allison Date: Sat Jan 24 20:27:36 2009 New Revision: 35983 Modified: trunk/docs/parrothist.pod
Log: [doc] Cleaning up Parrot release history. Modified: trunk/docs/parrothist.pod ============================================================================== --- trunk/docs/parrothist.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/parrothist.pod Sat Jan 24 20:27:36 2009 @@ -1,51 +1,22 @@ =head1 NAME -parrothist - the parrot history records +parrothist - Parrot Release History =head1 DESCRIPTION -This document aims to record the parrot source code releases. +This document records Parrot source code releases, and their release managers. -=head1 INTRODUCTION - -Parrot history in brief... - -... ok, done! - -=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN +=head1 RELEASE MANAGERS Simon Cozens, Jeff Goff, Steve Fink, Leo Toetsch, Chip Salzenberg, Jerry Gay, Patrick Michaud, Will Coleda, Matt Diephouse, chromatic, Allison Randal, -Jonathan Worthington. - -=head2 PUMPKIN? - -[from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution] - -Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his coworker, -David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot -potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked: - -[begin quote] - - Who has the patch pumpkin? - -To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job, -there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups. -But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech -method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin. -No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin". - -[end quote] +Jonathan Worthington, Bob Rogers, Bernhard Schmalhofer, Andrew Whitworth. -The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called -the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling -the strings?). =head1 THE RECORDS - Pump- Release Date Release name - king + Release Release Date Release name + Manager =========================================================================== Simon 0.0.1 2001-Sep-10 n/a
