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.
21 [from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
23 Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
24 David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
25 potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
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".
39 The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
40 the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling
45 Pump- Release Date Notes
50 ===========================================================================
52 Simon 0.0.1 2001-Sep-10
57 Jeff 0.0.5 2002-Apr-16
63 Steve 0.0.9 2002-Dec-19
68 Leo 0.0.13 2003-Oct-31
85 Chip 0.4.6 2006-Aug-08