What is a pumpkin?

SilasTheMonk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: What is a pumpkin? by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 19, 2009 at 00:24 UTC
It's really "pumpking", but most people say and spell it "pumpkin". As in, the person responsible for a particular Perl release. If you're not the Pumpking, you can only suggest changes to the next release, and you hope the pumpking approves. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.	[reply]
Re^2: What is a pumpkin? by The Perlman (Scribe) on Dec 19, 2009 at 22:18 UTC
No it was "pumpgun", but because of bloody copyright conflicts with the NRA, Larry changed it to "pumpkin". Believe the Perlman!	[reply]
Re: What is a pumpkin? by planetscape (Chancellor) on Dec 19, 2009 at 01:19 UTC
Pumpkins can be very dangerous! Beware! er, no, wait, that's something else... nevermind... HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: What is a pumpkin? by codeacrobat (Chaplain) on Dec 18, 2009 at 23:21 UTC
see perlhist `print+qq(\L@{[ref\&@]}@{['@'x7^'!#2/"!4']});`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What is a pumpkin? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 19, 2009 at 00:42 UTC
To give you an idea, the 5.12 pumpking set the overall goal/theme of the release, he set priorities, he set feature freeze dates, and more.	[reply]