Perl Steering Council

All of us turned up. There wasn’t much other than administrivia to discuss. We will be initiating the process for the new PSC election in the coming days.

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All of us were present.

• We merged one more small fix during triage. Everything else in RC2 looks good.
• The majority of our time went into discussing and editing a draft LLM policy based on the feedback so far from the core team. We will create a PR for it in the next days.
• Leon will be releasing 5.44.0 this week.
• Paul volunteers to be release manager for the subsequent 5.45.1 which may be much sooner than the usual “one per month”, because there are a lot of changes already queued up and we have two months of slipped time to catch up with.

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All three of us showed up to a shorter meeting that dealt entirely with triage. Last week’s new blocker was resolved in the meantime, but we had a few new small ones show up, which we merged fixes for. The last-minute IO::Compress release has needed some oopsie fixes. Another release candidate is inevitable and will be shipping this week.

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Once again we were all present.

• A new blocker appeared. It is only just impactful enough to register, but unfortunately not negligible enough to ignore. We will attempt a resolution before we consider other options.
• There has been some more activity in the LLM policy discussion, where we didn’t get around to posting our thoughts last week. We will rectify that.

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All three of us attended.

• We accepted a number of last-minute patches provided by Karl to improve our z/OS support stance, since they are strictly limited to that system and largely touch things that were broken there anyway.
• The worrying situation on CPAN Testers for the latest HTTP::Tiny situation cleared up; it was only caused by smokers-only tests against a live system that was intermittently unresponsive. Consequently we have now synchronized with CPAN, which means every one of the late-in-cycle release blockers we had is now addressed.
• Leon had already begun work on RC1 even before that.
• We touched base on LLM policy based on the feedback we have had on the thread so far. We have been chewing on some thoughts about that which are in draft state; we agreed that we should actually send them out soon.
• We discussed one of the two new PPC PRs, about viral value magic, which Leon and Aristotle realized is more similar to tainting and its limitations than previously understood. No verdict was reached; we will continue this discussion.

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