[sakai2-tcc] [cle-release-team] Fwd: summary - Re: VOTE: Release of Sakai 2.9.2

[David Horwitz]

I think its similarly understood in the UK - its sometimes used in Rugby "punt for touch" which I think is similar  the gridiron roots of the term (avoiding 'football' for obvious reasons)

D

On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 07:35 -0400, Neal Caidin wrote:
Punt in this case is American slang, as you probably guessed. It means to not deal with something at the moment or leave it for later. Probably comes from American Football.


After googling I found that apparently punt means something different to Brits…


American slang:
"To cease doing something; give up: Let's punt on this and try something else.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/punt#ixzz2UD16tg53"






- Neal


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On May 24, 2013, at 4:17 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr<mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>> wrote:

What does punt mean in this case ?

J-F
French

On 23/05/2013 18:06, David Horwitz wrote:

2. see if we can untangle the 2.9.x merge regression summarized in
KNL-1081 by Friday, 24 May 2013.  If not punt to 2.9.3.

If we do decide to punt this we need to think carefully how this is
communicated to the community. I'm sure we're not the only adopter who
thought this was working till this morning. At the very least we would
need a quick off cycle release of kernel or a quick 2.9.3.


D
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