On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:52:00AM -0400, Ivica Bukvic wrote:
has no choice but to keep it as-is. Some would argue this is one potential definition of a stalemate. OTOH, there are some of us who are less concerned with legacy and more interested in faster development, which is
Something that always impressed me from the Perl community was Larry's idea of an Apocalypse for moving from 5 to 6
When a community gets 5+ years advanced notice of moving to a new chapter the stalemate issues have a mechanism to dissolve. A major _planned_ landmark/milestone also acts as a rallying point for debate and concrete decision making. The Perl5/6 split and rendezvous seems like a mature, farsighted way to handle modernising a codebase with complex community and legacy concerns.
best, Andy