Robert

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• Commented on A dream resyntaxed
  I will be surprised if any answer is given to your questions. Obviously, they chose not to go the Moose-way but there is a rationale section if you haven't read it: https://github.com/Ovid/Cor/blob/master/rfc/overview.md#24-rationale...
• Commented on berrybrew version 1.34 released!
  Trying it out!...
• Commented on Open Letter to the Perl Foundation Board
  Nice. I hope the TPF takes this seriously under consideration....
• Commented on Perl 7 By Default
  What happens if there is no "use" statement at all? I would expect it to run with all the features of the perl interpreter that it is running under. Is that going to be the case?...
• Commented on Long time no see
  That is amazing so far! I pray it continues to be amazing and you recover completely....
• Commented on graphql-perl - plugin to make GraphQL "just work" with DBIx::Class
  I just recently started looking at grapnel. This is very good timing for me. :)...
• Commented on Check your licences: The FSF has a new physical address
  One reason NOT to have a physical address in a license....
• Commented on All the Perl Books catalogue
  You can't search the page. I am lazy and I am not going to look through a bazillion images to see if one is there or not....
• Commented on The Silver Camel goes to ... Mark Keating
  Well deserved. Congrats!...
• Commented on Inline Granted
  That's fantastic!...
• Commented on Some statistics from Debian package tags
  Wow, I am surprised by Ocaml being so high....
• Commented on Perl Needs a User Friendly CMS
  Moxie is based on CGI::Application so it should be relatively easy to add plugins etc....
• Commented on Perl Needs a User Friendly CMS
  This is an awesome thing....
• Commented on What exactly is going on at Perlmonks?
  There is zero wrong with the term "man-hours"....
• Commented on Names and Numbers, Brand and Identity
  Someone looking for a new language is going to try "Pumpkin Perl"? I doubt it....
• Commented on Pumpkin Perl - Redux
  Pumpkin Perl? Wow, that is a rename all right. That is all I can agree with....
• Commented on $3M says Perl5 needs a new major version number
  I am good with the changing it to "Perl YYYY.M". This gets us around the major version number perception elegantly IMO. That doesn't mean new stuff can't go in or that old stuff is broken. It *can* mean that but...
• Commented on Perl 7
  Nothing would change about the way the Perl maintainers announce versions and nothing needs to. This is purely a "no major version" perception problem that is solved (IMO) by going to a yearly naming scheme of some time like "Perl...
• Commented on Perl 7
  "it has the appearance of allowing breaking changes yearly." I don't buy that line of argumentation at all....
• Commented on Perl 7
  I really LOVE LOVE LOVE the version being the year track. That solves it all....
• Commented on Installing all CPAN modules
  CPAN::Mini...
• Commented on The shit of booking.com
  Waste not fresh tears over old griefs....
• Commented on cygwin perl updated from 5.10 to 5.14
  More importantly, WHO did you talk to about your security concern?...
• Commented on Advanced Modulinos
  Modulinos are cool. I try to use them as much as I can....
• Commented on The new ORLite 2.0 learns some amazing SQLite tricks
  Hmmm...interesting....
• Commented on The new ORLite 2.0 learns some amazing SQLite tricks
  You would still use the "delete" method that ORLite supplies. I would think '$sydney->delete;' would wipe them all out and you could pass a 'where' statement to get the exact ones if there where records you didn't want to delete....
• Commented on On development in perl
  Also, doesn't "Perl Testing - A Developer's Notebook" cover some of that?...
• Commented on On development in perl
  Why not do a short dedicated PDF of "TDD in Perl" and give it away free and use one of the print on demand to ask for $$$ if the user wants a dead tree version?...
• Commented on Komodo 7, first try
  Should file a bug against it....
• Commented on Alternative Dancer Templating Engines
  Thanks for that....

Comment Threads

• markov commented on Open Letter to the Perl Foundation Board

  I was co-organizer of YAPC Europe 2020. As such, I had very long discussions with mainly SawyerX because he (as contact person for main sponsor Booking.com) forced the American Code of Conduct on our conference. He did not (want to) care that those rules are unconstitutional in Europe. It made me leave the Perl society.

  Societies have written regulations, which you MUST follow: it is what participants expect and what defends your actions in case of court cases. There never, ever is self-elected elite which will be able to solve conflicts.

  Expressions and behaviour of part…

• BooK commented on Open Letter to the Perl Foundation Board

  Both events you used as examples seem to have a code of conduct:
  

  • FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2021/practical/conduct/
    
  • CCC: https://help.ccc.de/principles.en.html

• markov commented on Open Letter to the Perl Foundation Board

  Certainly BooK. There is nothing wrong with explicitly state that you want everyone to be pleasant. As organizers of a big event, you are also required (by law) to solve problems which emerge: being explicit on such procedure is also a good thing. That's where FOSDEM and CCC end.

  But forbidding people to say unpleasant things beforehand is not allowed in the EU. Kicking people out solely because a few non-elected others do not like your expression is not acceptable. But it has been done a few times now. Giving your own interpretation on very sensitive terms as harassment is rea…

• Dean commented on Open Letter to the Perl Foundation Board

  TPF's domain of control is limited to its official services & assets. This needs to be clarified.

  TPF should offer a boilerplate set of community guidelines which perl affiliated projects may elect to adopt.

  Beyond that, perhaps a mediation service should be offered to assist in resolving complaints. Projects may then wish to opt-in to the outcome of these resolutions.

  This is not the first time this has happened, it is however the first time the perl community didnt pile on to someone. That's something *everyone* should think about.

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• Marnix commented on Learning Perl Master Course (video) now available

  Dang. It seems I can't just see that one video. I'm asked to sign up for $49/month or $499/year. Not giving me a lot of choices.