Jan. 20, 2000
1:42 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Ken Manheimer wrote:
I must have missed the historic landmark where "pumpkin" was coined, but i think i get the gist. How about "Python Marshall" or "Python Activity Marshall" (a la the PS_A_)?
The "pumpkin" term comes from Perl-land... I'm not super clear on the pumpkin-holders's entire job, but I think it is basically the guy who sees that the version for which he "holds the pumpkin" is completed and shipped. Not necessarily by himself :-), but as the overseer (or "release manager" if you will). The current Perl pumpkin-holder is a guy at ActiveState. I think it changes for each version. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/