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1 =head1 NAME
3 parrothist - the parrot history records
5 =head1 DESCRIPTION
7 This document aims to record the parrot source code releases.
9 =head1 INTRODUCTION
11 Parrot history in brief...
13 ... ok, done!
15 =head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
17 Simon Cozens, Jeff Goff, Steve Fink, Leo Toetsch, Chip Salzenberg.
19 =head2 PUMPKIN?
21 [from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
23 Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his coworker,
24 David Croy.  We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
25 potato) but none caught on.  Then, Chip asked:
27 [begin quote]
29    Who has the patch pumpkin?
31 To explain:  David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
32 there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
33 But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
34 method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
35 No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
37 [end quote]
39 The name has stuck.  The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
40 the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling
41 the strings?).
43 =head1 THE RECORDS
45  Pump-  Release         Date            Notes
46  king                                   (by no means
47                                          comprehensive,
48                                          see Changes*
49                                          for details)
50  ===========================================================================
52  Simon   0.0.1          2001-Sep-10     n/a
53          0.0.2          2001-Oct-05     n/a
54          0.0.3          2001-Dec-08     n/a
55          0.0.4          2002-Mar-19     n/a
57  Jeff    0.0.5          2002-Apr-16     n/a
58          0.0.6          2002-Jun-04     n/a
59          0.0.7          2002-Jul-18     "Percy"
60          0.0.8          2002-Sep-01     "Octarine"
61          0.0.8.1        2002-Sep-01     (bugfix release)
63  Steve   0.0.9          2002-Dec-19     "Nazgul"
64          0.0.10         2003-Mar-16     "Juice"
65          0.0.11         2003-Sep-20     "Dubloon"
66          0.0.11.2       2003-Sep-22     (bugfix release)
68  Leo     0.0.13         2003-Oct-31     "Screaming Pumpkin"
69          0.1.0          2004-Feb-29     "Leaping Kakapo"
70          0.1.1          2004-Oct-09     "Poicephalus"
71          0.1.2          2005-Mar-06     "Phoenix"
72          0.2.0          2005-May-08     "NLnet"
73          0.2.1          2005-Jun-04     "APW"
74          0.2.2          2005-Jul-03     "Geeksunite"
75          0.2.3          2005-Aug-05     "Serenity"
76          0.3.0          2005-Oct-01     "Alex"
77          0.3.1          2005-Nov-06     "Wart"
78          0.4.0          2005-Dec-04     "Luthor"
79          0.4.1          2006-Jan-08     "Foghorn Leghorn"
80          0.4.2          2006-Feb-22     "GPW"
81          0.4.3          2006-Apr-02     "Cold Conure"
82          0.4.4          2006-May-14     "Feather"
83          0.4.5          2006-Jun-19     n/a
85  Chip    0.4.6          2006-Aug-08     n/a
86          0.4.7          2006-Nov-14     "Caique"
88 =cut