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=head1 STABLE RELEASE SCHEDULE

This schedule lists the projected or historical development and
release schedules for the next, current and previous stable versions
of Perl.  Dates with all question marks will only be releases if
deemed necessary by the Pumpking.

=head2 Perl 5.18

Code freezes (which happen in the 5.17.X series)

  2013-01-20  5.17.8    Contentious changes freeze
  2013-02-20  5.17.9    User-visible changes freeze
  2013-03-20  5.17.10   Full code freeze

Release schedule (with release manager):

  2013-04-??  5.18.0-RC0      Ricardo Signes
  ...(interim RC releases)...
  2013-05-18  5.18.0 (final)  Ricardo Signes

(RC0 will be released once we think that all the blockers have been
addressed.  This typically means some time in April or May.)

=head2 Perl 5.16

Release schedule (with release managers):

  2012-05-20  5.16.0 ✓        Ricardo Signes
  2012-08-08  5.16.1 ✓        Ricardo Signes
  2012-11-01  5.16.2          Ricardo Signes
  2013-0?-??  5.16.3          ??
  ????-??-??  5.16.4          ??

=head2 Perl 5.14

Release schedule (with release managers):

  2011-05-14  5.14.0 (final)  Jesse Vincent
  2011-06-16  5.14.1 ✓        Jesse Vincent
  2011-09-14  5.14.2 ✓        Florian Ragwitz
  2012-10-12  5.14.3 ✓        Dominic Hargreaves
  ????-??-??  5.14.4          ??

=head1 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE SCHEDULE

This schedule lists the release engineers for at least the next
four months of releases of bleadperl. If there are fewer than
four months listed as you make a release, it's important
that you extend the schedule AND B<identify the next release engineer>.

Before adding a release engineer, you B<must> contact them and they
B<must> consent to ship the release.

When shipping a release, you should include the schedule for (at least)
the next four releases. If a stable version of Perl is released,
you should reset the version numbers to the next blead series.

=head2 Perl 5.17

  2012-05-26  5.17.0  ✓       Zefram
  2012-06-20  5.17.1  ✓       Jesse Luehrs
  2012-07-20  5.17.2  ✓       Tony Cook
  2012-08-20  5.17.3  ✓       Steve Hay
  2012-09-20  5.17.4  ✓       Florian Ragwitz
  2012-10-20  5.17.5  ✓       Florian Ragwitz
  2012-11-20  5.17.6  ✓       Ricardo Signes
  2012-12-18  5.17.7  ✓       Dave Rolsky
  2013-01-20  5.17.8  ✓       Aaron Crane
  2013-02-20  5.17.9          Chris Williams
  2013-03-20  5.17.10         Max Maischein
  2013-04-20  5.17.11

=head2 Perl 5.19

  2013-05-20  5.19.0
  2013-06-20  5.19.1          David Golden
  2013-07-20  5.19.2
  2013-08-20  5.19.3
  2013-09-20  5.19.4
  2013-10-20  5.19.5
  2013-11-20  5.19.6
  2013-12-20  5.19.7

=head1 VICTIMS

The following porters have all consented to do at least
one release of bleadperl.  If you can't do a release
and can't find a substitute amongst this list, mail p5p.

(Please do not add any names to this list without prior
consent of the Pumpking.)

Jesse Vincent <jesse@cpan.org>
Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>
Yves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com>
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>
Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@perl.org>
David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Philippe Bruhat <book@cpan.org>
Matt Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>
Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
Chris Williams <bingos@cpan.org>
Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
Stevan Little <stevan.little@iinteractive.com>
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>
Max Maischein <corion@cpan.org>
Dave Cross <dave@perlhacks.com>
Jesse Luehrs <doy@cpan.org>
Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>

=head1 AUTHOR

Jesse Vincent <jesse@cpan.org>

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