With regard to the heavily updated
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose/lib/Moose/Manual/Support.pod as of release
1.21 a few days ago ...
I see that the official plan now is to release Moose on a fixed schedule with
semantically meaningful version numbers, essentially more like how Perl itself
is now released, and Parrot, Rakudo, Postgres, etc before it. So Moose regular
releases would come quarterly and minor releases weekly, with major being
defined as willing to break backwards compatibility.
I welcome these changes.
Question / request:
1. Unless I missed it, the support document doesn't give the approximate dates
for when the quarterlies/etc are. Maybe that's because this hasn't been decided
yet, but I believe that it should be documented there once decided, so that
people can predict these things.
2. Have the dates been decided yet? When are the quarters?
3. Is the next major release going to be version 2.0000 just to cleanly setup
the new semantic numbering system? The support document implies that this would
be the case. I assume you won't wait for an especially major change to do this,
even if increasing the X in X.YYZZ would normally do that ... unless one is in
the pipeline that I didn't anticipate.
4. Is Class::MOP going to gain a similar support policy to Moose's new one,
considering how closely they are associated?
-- Darren Duncan
