Another month, another ... hey what the?!

mugwumpjism on 2008-03-03T08:54:29

Change 9999 already! That's quite a few releases... new GitTorrent references tag is at this link.

For funsies, here's another section of the records:

Com-    Pump-  Release         Date            Notes
mits    king                                   (by no means
                                                comprehensive,
                                                see Changes*
                                                for details)
============================================================================
3460    Sarathy  5.005         1998-Jul-22     Oneperl.

        Sarathy  5.005_01      1998-Jul-27     The 5.005 maintenance track.
                 5.005_02-T1   1998-Aug-02
                 5.005_02-T2   1998-Aug-05
                 5.005_02      1998-Aug-08
        Graham   5.005_03-MT1  1998-Nov-30
                 5.005_03-MT2  1999-Jan-04
                 5.005_03-MT3  1999-Jan-17
                 5.005_03-MT4  1999-Jan-26
                 5.005_03-MT5  1999-Jan-28
                 5.005_03-MT6  1999-Mar-05
3907             5.005_03      1999-Mar-28

        Sarathy  5.005_50      1998-Jul-26     The 5.6 development track.
                 5.005_51      1998-Aug-10
                 5.005_52      1998-Sep-25
                 5.005_53      1998-Oct-31
                 5.005_54      1998-Nov-30
                 5.005_55      1999-Feb-16
                 5.005_56      1999-Mar-01
                 5.005_57      1999-May-25
                 5.005_58      1999-Jul-27
                 5.005_59      1999-Aug-02
                 5.005_60      1999-Aug-02
                 5.005_61      1999-Aug-20
                 5.005_62      1999-Oct-15
                 5.005_63      1999-Dec-09
                 5.5.640       2000-Feb-02
                 5.5.650       2000-Feb-08     beta1
                 5.5.660       2000-Feb-22     beta2
                 5.5.670       2000-Feb-29     beta3
                 5.6.0-RC1     2000-Mar-09     Release candidate 1.
                 5.6.0-RC2     2000-Mar-14     Release candidate 2.
                 5.6.0-RC3     2000-Mar-21     Release candidate 3.
7223             5.6.0         2000-Mar-22

        Sarathy  5.6.1-TRIAL1  2000-Dec-18     The 5.6 maintenance track.
                 5.6.1-TRIAL2  2001-Jan-31
                 5.6.1-TRIAL3  2001-Mar-19
                 5.6.1-foolish 2001-Apr-01     The "fools-gold" release.
8003             5.6.1         2001-Apr-08
The "commits" column is the approximate number of discrete changes in that version of Perl, not the number of changes in the entire repository. At Change 9999, there are 12266 revisions in git.