Anybody have any leads? Or does nick makes these announcements in private communications?

From the perl5-porters mailing list (which is the Real Thing, the use.perl announcement comes after the fact):

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From: Nicholas Clark 
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Subject: 5.8.8
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    It's not that easy bein' green	  	  	  
    Having to spend each day the color of the leaves  
    When I think it could be nicer being red or yellow or gold
    Or something much more colorful like that	    	   
      	      	     		   	 	     	     
    It's not easy bein' green 	      	      		  
    It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
    And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're	    
    Not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water     
    Or stars in the sky 	      	      	   	       
      	    	 	     	    			       
    But green's the color of Spring 	     	     	       
    And green can be cool and friendly-like      	     
    And green can be big like an ocean  		     
    Or important like a mountain	
    Or tall like a tree

    When green is all there is to be
    It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why?
    Wonder I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful
    And I think it's what I want to be

        Bein' Green, by Joe Raposo


  http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

(or s/bz2$/gz/ if you really want a 28% larger download.)

coming soon to a CPAN mirror near you soon as

  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2

shasums are

818a140d9c04ea8dab3a05104b34ced7f7d9d0a91bfed91baf89a84d0dfb1bc9  perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
e15d499321e003d12ed183601e37ee7ba5f64b278d1de30149ce01bd4a3f234d  perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

md5sums are

a377c0c67ab43fd96eeec29ce19e8382  perl-5.8.8.tar.bz2
b8c118d4360846829beb30b02a6b91a7  perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

The use.perl announcement will be in a day or so, once it's had time to
propagate round CPAN.

Nicholas Clark

It has actually been out for a while, it was just a question of giving the mirrors time to catch up.

Nicholas++

Re^3: perl-5.8.8 is out

jdporter

created: 2006-02-02 14:14:59

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I found that. That's not what brian_d_foy quoted. Thanks anyway.

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Re^4: perl-5.8.8 is out

brian_d_foy

created: 2006-02-03 10:58:40

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You should really correct your statement to "That's not what Nick wrote and brian d foy approved for use.perl." I didn't quote anything, I didn't write the content, and I didn't tell Nick what to write.

If you have a question for Nick, ask him directly. :)

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Re^5: perl-5.8.8 is out

jdporter

created: 2006-02-03 13:25:58

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I didn't quote anything,

What is one to think when a use.perl posting posted by brian_d_foy says

nicholas writes "Perl 5.8.8 Release Candidate 1 has been uploaded to CPAN..."

One can't be blamed for thinking that brian_d_foy is quoting nicholas clark, because that's what it says in black and white.

I have since learned that this was posted under a kind of editorial, third-party article submission mechanism. So (not that I'm asking or expecting anything to change over at use.perl) I'll just suggest that I might not be the only use.perl reader who could be confused by the way "stories" are posted and attributed.

We're building the house of the future together.

Yeah sorry jdporter, been up to my eyes today, hence my two really short and useless posts. I shouldn't have bothered, and let someone else do it. Sorry ;-)

Gavin.

I just approved the story for use.perl. I didn't write it, and I didn't quote anything. Nick submitted the story and wrote all of the content, and that is the original message. If you have questions about something I did, you can always just ask me directly to get the real story, rather than assigning blame where it doesn't belong or cooking up a conspiracy. If you have a question about something Nick did, you can ask him.

Re^3: perl-5.8.8 is out

pudge

created: 2006-02-03 11:05:05

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What? jdporter making false assumptions and then going off about them? Never!!

Re^3: perl-5.8.8 is out

jdporter

created: 2006-02-03 13:36:44

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Thanks. My misunderstanding was about how news "stories" get submitted and approved by an editor, and subsequently posted under the editor's name.

If you have questions about something I did, you can always just ask me directly...

If you have a question about something Nick did, you can ask him.

True enough. Honestly, it just didn't seem a big enough deal to involve you, let alone nick. Sorry about that.

...rather than assigning blame where it doesn't belong or cooking up a conspiracy.

Neither of which I did, thankyouverymuch. I was just trying to figure out where that message of nick's came from. Ultimately the problem was my misunderstanding of how these "stories" get posted on use.perl, and for that I plead that it was an innocent and understandable mistake. Now, you could argue that I, as a use.perl account holder, should have known... But in fact I've never had to make use of the "submit a story" feature and was completely ignorant of its workings.

We're building the house of the future together.