I plan to release perl 5.9.2, the next development version, as soon as the smokes settle down, just to be sure it compiles without problems on the major OSes -- Unixes, Windows and VMS, feedback on other platforms welcome.
The plan is to release often (and early) development versions, each time a new major change or feature is integrated into blead, until we reach 5.10.0. pack() changes and trie optimisation seem to be a good reason for a new release. The goal is to have a development version of perl a bit more widely tested than by the core perl5-porters only; notably, tests against the major CPAN modules (e.g. the Phalanx 100) will be appreciated. I have written a rough draft of the next perldelta (pod/perl592delta.pod in the bleadperl tree, or at the URL <http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?file=pod%2Fperl592delta.pod>). I'm sure it's very incomplete and innaccurate, and you will probably want to submit patches against it :) --
