In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/f1126a906c58d54cb68626bd2e4c1d577d77796a?hp=7fcb412668d2fa3df241491ee985370bed3a3018>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit f1126a906c58d54cb68626bd2e4c1d577d77796a Author: Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 15 18:19:41 2014 -0400 document how to graduate from experimental status M pod/perlpolicy.pod commit ce98a8cbcc62ba1e5eceafb381453aff6ac4471f Author: Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 15 18:19:28 2014 -0400 release schedule: Max M. will do December 2014 M Porting/release_schedule.pod ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: Porting/release_schedule.pod | 2 +- pod/perlpolicy.pod | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Porting/release_schedule.pod b/Porting/release_schedule.pod index bd3efba..cceb8a5 100644 --- a/Porting/release_schedule.pod +++ b/Porting/release_schedule.pod @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ you should reset the version numbers to the next blead series. 2014-09-20 5.21.4 Steve Hay 2014-10-20 5.21.5 Abigail 2014-11-20 5.21.6 Chris "BinGOs" Williams - 2014-12-20 5.21.7 ? + 2014-12-20 5.21.7 Max Maischein 2015-01-20 5.21.8 Matthew Horsfall 2015-02-20 5.21.9 ? 2015-03-20 5.21.10 ? diff --git a/pod/perlpolicy.pod b/pod/perlpolicy.pod index 7f7befa..4dbf5ad 100644 --- a/pod/perlpolicy.pod +++ b/pod/perlpolicy.pod @@ -204,6 +204,14 @@ do our best to smooth the transition path for users of experimental features, you should contact the perl5-porters mailinglist if you find an experimental feature useful and want to help shape its future. +Experimental features must be experimental in two stable releases before being +marked non-experimental. Experimental features will only have their +experimental status revoked when they no longer have any design-changing bugs +open against them and when they have remained unchanged in behavior for the +entire length of a development cycle. In other words, a feature present in +v5.20.0 may be marked no longer experimental in v5.22.0 if and only if its +behavior is unchanged throughout all of v5.21. + =item deprecated If something in the Perl core is marked as B<deprecated>, we may remove it -- Perl5 Master Repository
