On Apr 30, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > On 30/04/2011 6:05 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: >> BTW, I haven't seen any voting on 3.3 bugs for quite a while now. >> Meanwhile the written policies allows releasing betas at anytime. So we >> might be better off just cutting a beta right now instead of waiting. >> I'll try to do it this weekend if nobody objects. > > Back when Theo and I were hammering out a release a month for about a year, > we were giving one week notice that we were going to cut a tarball to vote on. > > There's no need to call it beta if you don't want to. Just cut the tarball, > post it to your home directory on people.a.o and let the dev@ list know where > it is. We then let the vote run for the minimum time required -- at least (I > prefer a 5 day minimum myself). > > Let me know if you have any issues with the associated rule tarball. I can > help out with that if you like. Copy me directly on any emails to the dev@ > list about any required help. > > Daryl
I know it's not the current procedure, but the CPAN way would be to release a dev version with _01 at the end of the version. This makes it readily available to everyone and allows the CPAN testers infrastructure to report on the test suite across multiple platforms and versions of perl. It does not get installed by any cpan(plus/minus) clients because of the underscore. I definitely don't want to slow down a release but this might be a good approach eventually.
