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

In reply to •Re: Perl 5.8 Released by merlyn
in thread Perl 5.8 Released by ehdonhon

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