3 parrothist - the parrot history records
7 This document aims to record the parrot source code releases.
11 Parrot history in brief...
15 =head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
17 Simon Cozens, Jeff Goff, Steve Fink, Leo Toetsch, Chip Salzenberg, Jerry Gay,
18 Patrick Michaud, Will Coleda, Matt Diephouse, chromatic, Allison Randal,
23 [from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
25 Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his coworker,
26 David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
27 potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
31 Who has the patch pumpkin?
33 To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
34 there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
35 But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
36 method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
37 No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
41 The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
42 the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling
47 Pump- Release Date Release name
49 ===========================================================================
51 Simon 0.0.1 2001-Sep-10 n/a
56 Jeff 0.0.5 2002-Apr-16 n/a
58 0.0.7 2002-Jul-18 "Percy"
59 0.0.8 2002-Sep-01 "Octarine"
60 0.0.8.1 2002-Sep-01 (bugfix release)
62 Steve 0.0.9 2002-Dec-19 "Nazgul"
63 0.0.10 2003-Mar-16 "Juice"
64 0.0.11 2003-Sep-20 "Dubloon"
65 0.0.11.2 2003-Sep-22 (bugfix release)
67 Leo 0.0.13 2003-Oct-31 "Screaming Pumpkin"
68 0.1.0 2004-Feb-29 "Leaping Kakapo"
69 0.1.1 2004-Oct-09 "Poicephalus"
70 0.1.2 2005-Mar-06 "Phoenix"
71 0.2.0 2005-May-08 "NLnet"
72 0.2.1 2005-Jun-04 "APW"
73 0.2.2 2005-Jul-03 "Geeksunite"
74 0.2.3 2005-Aug-05 "Serenity"
75 0.3.0 2005-Oct-01 "Alex"
76 0.3.1 2005-Nov-06 "Wart"
77 0.4.0 2005-Dec-04 "Luthor"
78 0.4.1 2006-Jan-08 "Foghorn Leghorn"
79 0.4.2 2006-Feb-22 "GPW"
80 0.4.3 2006-Apr-02 "Cold Conure"
81 0.4.4 2006-May-14 "Feather"
84 Chip 0.4.6 2006-Aug-08 n/a
85 0.4.7 2006-Nov-14 "Caique"
87 Jerry 0.4.8b 2007-Jan-16 "Eponymous"
89 Patrick 0.4.9 2007-Feb-22 "Socorro"
91 Will 0.4.10 2007-Mar-20 "Release Formerly Known as Prince"
93 Matt 0.4.11 2007-Apr-17 "Tax Bird"
95 chromatic 0.4.12 2007-May-15 "Of The Caribbean"
97 Allison 0.4.13 2007-Jun-19 "Clifton"
99 Jerry 0.4.14 2007-Jul-17 "Now, with Seat Belts!"
101 Patrick 0.4.15 2007-Aug-22 "Augean Stable"
103 Jerry 0.4.16 2007-Sep-18 "A Farewell to Alex"
105 Will 0.4.17 2007-Oct-17 "Two for Finching"
107 chromatic 0.5.0 2007-Nov-20 "Caulked Snack"
109 Jonathan 0.5.1 2007-Dec-18 "Hatachi"
111 Bob 0.5.2 2008-Jan-15 "P.e. nipalensis"
113 Patrick 0.5.3 2008-Feb-20 "Way of the Parrot"
115 Barney 0.6.0 2008-Mar-18 "P&P"
117 Jerry 0.6.1 2008-Apr-15 "Bird of Paradise"
119 chromatic 0.6.2 2008-May-20 "Reverse Sublimation"
121 smash 0.6.3 2008-Jun-17 "Beautiful Parrot"
123 Barney 0.6.4 2008-Jul-15 "St. Vincent Amazon"