Adding the acknowledgements section to perldelta

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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
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 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
-XXX Generate this with:
-
-  perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.15.2..HEAD
+Perl 5.15.3 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl 5.15.2
+and contains approximately 160,000 lines of changes across 700 files from 44
+authors.
+
+Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
+of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
+improvements that became Perl 5.15.3:
+
+Abigail, Alexandr Ciornii, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chas. Owens, Chip Salzenberg,
+Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Damian Conway, Dave Rolsky, David
+Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Douglas Christopher Wilson, Eric Brine, Father
+Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Frederic Briere, George Greer, Gerard Goossen,
+H.Merijn Brand, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Karl Williamson,
+Keith Thompson, Leo Lapworth, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Mark Jason Dominus,
+Matthew Horsfall, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Peter John Acklam, Rafael
+Garcia-Suarez, Ricardo Signes, Robin Barker, Shlomi Fish, Steffen Müller,
+Stephen Bennett, Stevan Little, Steve Hay, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit, Walt
+Mankowski, Zefram.
+
+The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
+from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
+the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
+tracker.
+
+Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
+included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
+helping Perl to flourish.
+
+For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
+the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
 
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