{"results":[{"role":"subject","uri":"https://justatheory.com/2009/07/pg-vs-perl-dev","title":"PostgreSQL Development: Lessons for Perl?","description":"Pondering Conservatism I’ve been following chromatic’s new blog since it launched, and have read with particular interest his posts on the Perl 5 development and release process. The very long time between releases of stable versions of Perl has concerned me for a while, though I hadn’t paid much attention until recently. There has been a fair amount of discussion about what it means for a release to be “stable,” from, among others, now-resigned Perl Pumpking Rafael Garcia-Suarez and Perl 5 contributor chromatic. Reading this commentary, I started to ponder what other major open-source projects might consider “stable,” and how they manage stability in their development and release processes. And it occurred to me that the Perl 5 code base is simultaneously treated too conservatively and – more importantly – not conservatively enough. What open-source projects treat their code highly conservatively?","date":1739892346385,"image":null},{"role":"object","uri":"https://octothorp.es/~/pumpking","title":null,"description":null,"image":null}]}