Patch pumpkin

Perl development is done by the community. That's you.
The perl5-porters mailing list loosely coordinates activity.
Overall responsibility for a particular release of Perl is in the hands of the "pumpking".
Recent pumpkings: Chip Salzenberg for 5.004, Gurusamy Sarathy for 5.005 and 5.6.
Also pumpkings for maintenance releases, documentation, particular ports, etc.
Pumpking is responsible for integrating patches, maintaining quality, and typically does the bulk of the work themselves.
Pumpking burnout is possible (hi Chip!).

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