in reply to Perl 5.8 Released

It's irresponsible to announce 5.8 before the powers-that-be are ready to announce it. It wasn't yet announced on http://use.perl.org or CLPA because it hadn't propogated to all the mirrors yet.

Next time, please read the prefix in front of the announcement you stole by reading P5P, and comply with the pumpking's wishes. You've done the equivalent of going to a private press meeting where the director says "now, the official time to move on this is $X", and you unload at "$X-2" to scoop everyone. That's the time you lose your press pass.

Here's the quote from the pumpking himself:

The official announcement (for use.perl.org, for dev.perl.org/perl5, comp.lang.perl.announce, etc.) will go out soon as enough mirrors have picked up the tar.gz. I'll ask the mirror sites to expedite their mirrors. (Yes, please, don't use.perl this yet.)

{sigh}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: •Re: Perl 5.8 Released
by ehdonhon (Curate) on Jul 19, 2002 at 13:10 UTC

    Please accept my appologies for all the problems I have caused, I did not get the announcement from P5P. And it was not my intention to "scoop" anybody. In the future I will most certainly keep my mouth shut.

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      Well, it's pretty irrelvant now; the offical announcement is out, around 20 hours later. No need to shut up; it was a pretty easy mistake; just don't repeat it.

      Confession: It does an Immortal Body good.

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Re: •Re: Perl 5.8 Released
by dws (Chancellor) on Jul 19, 2002 at 05:56 UTC
    It's irresponsible to announce 5.8 before the powers-that-be are ready to announce it. It wasn't yet announced on http://use.perl.org ...

    Unless I was hallucinating, 5.8 was announced earlier today on use.perl.org, though there's no trace of an announcement there now. Perhaps someone jumped the gun.

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      Actually you might mean the release candidate notice. Not really a "blessed" release.....

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