NAME ^

parrothist - the parrot history records

DESCRIPTION ^

This document aims to record the parrot source code releases.

INTRODUCTION ^

Parrot history in brief...

... ok, done!

THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN ^

Simon Cozens, Jeff Goff, Steve Fink, Leo Toetsch, Chip Salzenberg, Jerry Gay, Patrick Michaud, Will Coleda

PUMPKIN? ^

[from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]

Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his coworker, David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:

[begin quote]

   Who has the patch pumpkin?

To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job, there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups. But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin. No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".

[end quote]

The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling the strings?).

THE RECORDS ^

 Pump-  Release         Date            Notes
 king                                   (by no means
                                         comprehensive,
                                         see Changes*
                                         for details)
 ===========================================================================

 Simon   0.0.1          2001-Sep-10     n/a
         0.0.2          2001-Oct-05     n/a
         0.0.3          2001-Dec-08     n/a
         0.0.4          2002-Mar-19     n/a

 Jeff    0.0.5          2002-Apr-16     n/a
         0.0.6          2002-Jun-04     n/a
         0.0.7          2002-Jul-18     "Percy"
         0.0.8          2002-Sep-01     "Octarine"
         0.0.8.1        2002-Sep-01     (bugfix release)

 Steve   0.0.9          2002-Dec-19     "Nazgul"
         0.0.10         2003-Mar-16     "Juice"
         0.0.11         2003-Sep-20     "Dubloon"
         0.0.11.2       2003-Sep-22     (bugfix release)

 Leo     0.0.13         2003-Oct-31     "Screaming Pumpkin"
         0.1.0          2004-Feb-29     "Leaping Kakapo"
         0.1.1          2004-Oct-09     "Poicephalus"
         0.1.2          2005-Mar-06     "Phoenix"
         0.2.0          2005-May-08     "NLnet"
         0.2.1          2005-Jun-04     "APW"
         0.2.2          2005-Jul-03     "Geeksunite"
         0.2.3          2005-Aug-05     "Serenity"
         0.3.0          2005-Oct-01     "Alex"
         0.3.1          2005-Nov-06     "Wart"
         0.4.0          2005-Dec-04     "Luthor"
         0.4.1          2006-Jan-08     "Foghorn Leghorn"
         0.4.2          2006-Feb-22     "GPW"
         0.4.3          2006-Apr-02     "Cold Conure"
         0.4.4          2006-May-14     "Feather"
         0.4.5          2006-Jun-19     n/a

 Chip    0.4.6          2006-Aug-08     n/a
         0.4.7          2006-Nov-14     "Caique"

 Jerry   0.4.8b         2007-Jan-16     "Eponymous"

 Patrick 0.4.9          2007-Feb-22     "Socorro"

 Will    0.4.10         2007-Mar-20     "Release Formerly Known as Prince"


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