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+Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
+changes that went into every version of Perl.  If you'd like more
+detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
+patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list.  Patches for each
+individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
+perlhack.pod for the details.
+
+
+			   ---------------
+			    CAST AND CREW
+			   ---------------
+
+To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today,
+here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
+current addresses (as of February 2000):
+
+    Gisle Aas           <gisle@aas.no>
+    Abigail             <abigail@delanet.com>
+    Kenneth Albanowski  <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+    Russ Allbery        <rra@stanford.edu>
+    Brad Appleton       <bradapp@enteract.com>
+    Greg Bacon          <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu>
+    Robin Barker        <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+    Vishal Bhatia       <vishal@gol.com>
+    Spider Boardman     <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+    Tom Christiansen    <tchrist@perl.com>
+    Mark-Jason Dominus  <mjd@plover.com>
+    Jan Dubois          <jand@activestate.com>
+    Dominic Dunlop      <domo@computer.org>
+    Eric Fifer          <efifer@sanwaint.com>
+    Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+    M. J. T. Guy        <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+    Jarkko Hietaniemi   <jhi@iki.fi>
+    Tom Hughes          <tom@compton.nu>
+    Nick Ing-Simmons    <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+    Andreas Koenig      <a.koenig@mind.de>
+    Douglas Lankshear   <dougl@activestate.com>
+    Doug MacEachern     <dougm@opengroup.org>
+    Raphael Manfredi    <Raphael.Manfredi@st.com>
+    Paul Marquess       <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
+    Stephen McCamant    <alias@mcs.com>
+    Laszlo Molnar       <laszlo.molnar@eth.ericsson.se>
+    Hans Mulder         <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+    Chris Nandor        <pudge@pobox.com>
+    Matthias Neeracher  <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
+    Jeff Okamoto        <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+    Ulrich Pfeifer      <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+    Tom Phoenix         <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+    Joshua Pritikin     <joshua.pritikin@db.com>
+    Peter Prymmer       <pvhp@forte.com>
+    Norbert Pueschel    <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+    Dean Roehrich       <roehrich@cray.com>
+    Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk>
+    Michael G Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>
+    Roderick Schertler  <roderick@argon.org>
+    Kurt D. Starsinic   <kstar@chapin.edu>
+    Benjamin Stuhl      <sho_pi@hotmail.com>
+    Dan Sugalski        <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
+    Nathan Torkington   <gnat@frii.com>
+    Larry W. Virden     <lvirden@cas.org>
+    Johan Vromans       <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+    Ilya Zakharevich    <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
+
+    Charles Bailey      <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>
+    Graham Barr         <gbarr@ti.com>
+    Malcolm Beattie     <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
+    Tim Bunce           <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+    Andy Dougherty      <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+    Gurusamy Sarathy    <gsar@activestate.com>
+    Chip Salzenberg     <chip@perl.com>
+
+And, of course, the Author of Perl:
+
+    Larry Wall     	<larry@wall.org>
+
+
+NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
+repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
+happened in; and the affected files.  The file lists have a short symbolic
+indicator:
+
+    	    !	    modified
+    	    +	    added
+    	    -	    deleted
+    	    +>	    branched (from elsewhere)
+    	    !>	    merged changes (from elsewhere)
+
+
+--------------
+Version v5.7.0		Development release working toward v5.8
+--------------