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• Posted This week in PSC (108) to Perl Steering Council

  After skipping last week, Rik and BooK met today and we:

  • happily confirmed there are no release blockers left
  • looked at HTTP::Tiny, which might really be one last blocker
  • reviewed the PPC list (see ="https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/05/…
• Posted This week in PSC (107) to Perl Steering Council
  (21044), one more should be closable once a perldelta PR is merged (20384), one more remains (21073)
  • We discussed the funding of some Perl events (like PTS) and how their sponsorship works now, and Philippe wondered w…
• Posted This week in PSC (106) to Perl Steering Council

  Porters,

  After a meeting around an actual physical table at the Perl Toolchain Summit last week, the three of us were back to our regular video calls. The call was longer than usual, as we delved into the code of CPAN.pm.

• Posted This Week in PSC (105) to Perl Steering Council

  Today, the PSC met up … in person! We're all in Lyon for the Perl Toolchain Summit.

  

  Meantime, although we had a very long…

• Posted This week in PSC (104) to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us met, having skipped last week.

  There wasn't much to talk about because code freeze ahead of 5.38 is in effect, so there isn't much going on.

  • We talked further about the upcoming deprecations scheduled for 5.38.0 (smartmatch, tick-as-package-separator), and …

• Posted This week in PSC (103) to Perl Steering Council

  Paul, Philippe, and Ricardo had our mostly-weekly Zoom call today.

  We began by discussing last week, when Pete K from TPRF joined us and we talked about what TPRF could do to help p5p. (Main topics then, which didn't get any firm action items, were support for critical infrastructure and …

• Posted This week in PSC (102) to Perl Steering Council

  Topics discussed:

  • Bug reporting by email: we commit to nothing as an organisation. Some would-be submitters of issues don't want to use GitHub. They can just send an email to perl5-porters and hope that some helpful soul will copy-paste to GitHub. We encourage the conventional use…
• Posted This week in PSC (101) to Perl Steering Council

  Porters,

  We had an abbreviated PSC call today, largely due to an unexpected delay. …

• Posted This week in PSC (100) to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us met, and were joined by Pete Krawczyk who first wanted to discuss some TPRF-related issues.

  Following on from this we discussed:

  • Zefram's request to back out the strict-vs-VERSION changes. There's some merit here, he sent a PR to undo the whole thing. We fe…

• Posted This week in PSC (099) to Perl Steering Council

  After missing last week, all three of us attended.

  • Recapped the missing weeks from absences
  • Smartmatch deprecation seems to be causing some BBC failures due to new warnings, but that’s to be expected; Philippe to submit patches upstream
  • Refined the questions s…
• Posted This Week in PSC (098) to Perl Steering Council

  Paul and Philippe attended (Rik is still enjoying Australia).

  We discussed:

  • feature-class: there's a soon-to-be-merged PR to fix most memory leaks https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20809
  • n-at-a-time map/grep: HAARG should reply to a…
• Posted This week in PSC (097) to Perl Steering Council

  PSC met today, just Paul and Philippe.

  We discussed:

  • inclusion of TLS libraries in the core: we think w…
• Posted This Week in PSC (096) to Perl Steering Council

  Just Paul and Philippe this week.

  • Smartmatch deprecation continues - just one more distribution left now (Test-Simple).
  • RFC process needs a new name and ID allocation scheme. We will continue discussing ideas and post when we have something presentable.
  • overload::v2 …
• Posted This Week in PSC (095) to Perl Steering Council

  A busy meeting today, we talked about quite a few things:

  • Smartmatch deprecation continues. Some upstream PRs have been raised, awaiting CPAN releases
  • Refaliasing might be able to be deëxperimentalized if we add a warning on the currently-failing closure capture cases
  • RFC001…
• Posted This Week in PSC (094) to Perl Steering Council

  PSC met today, all three of us attended.

  We discussed:

  • HAARG's map my $x RFC. Overall thoughts are good, with one or two minor questions we'll add as comments.
  • Whether the additions to join() as part of RFC0013 should be gated by some sort of opt-in flag…
• Posted This Week in PSC (093) to Perl Steering Council

  Paul, Philippe, and Rik had our regular call today to talk about perl5.

  We put together some notes (at long last) for The Perl Foundation to use in their annual prospectus.

  We talked about Math-Complex, and moving its issues into Perl5 GitHub. (A nice bit of work for anybody to do,…

• Posted This Week in PSC (092) to Perl Steering Council

  Having been off for two weeks, we spent a while just catching up with the state of the world. Not much of note to report this week.

  • We decided we should write up a list of "what's expected in 5.38" to ensure we're on track
  • We briefly chatted about :void, :scalar…
• Posted This Week in PSC (091) to Perl Steering Council
  • Paul suggested he might find time to begin implementing qt{} strings soon
  • HTTPS support in core still needs a project manager to help coördinate…
• Posted This Week in PSC (090) to Perl Steering Council

  Just Paul and Rik, Philippe could not join us today.

  • We talked about the difficulty of taking work that the author thinks is good, and may commit, but on which no significant feedback has been received. Rik will post more about this a bit later.
  • We ran through the RFC tracker, pu…
• Posted This Week in PSC (089) to Perl Steering Council

  Back to the full three of us. Not much needed looking at this week.

  • Posted the smartmatch deprecation message to p5p@; will post it to blogs etc.. after a round of responses.
  • Sent off a reminder that we're looking for help or a project manager on getting SSL support out of the bo…
• Posted This Week in PSC (088) to Perl Steering Council

  A smaller-than-usual meeting because of the US Holiday; only Paul and Philippe today.

  • We remembered we still need to write the announcement for deprecating smartmatch
  • We need to resync with Neil about how "SSL in Core" investigations are going
  • Reviewed RFCs and found a shortl…
• Posted This Week in PSC (087) to Perl Steering Council
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• Posted This Week in PSC (086) to Perl Steering Council

  We're trying out new ways to send out these regular announcements of what we get up to on the Perl Steering Council. This will be a regular posting that gives a brief summary of what we discussed in our weekly (or at least, near-weekly, give or take scheduling clashes) meetings.

  • Inte…
• Posted We have a new Perl Steering Council for 2022/23 to Perl Steering Council

  Following the release of 5.36.0, we have a new Perl Steering Council (PSC). The PSC for the next year comprises Ricardo Signes (RJBS), Paul Evans (PEVANS), and Philippe Bruhat (

• Posted What happened to Perl 7? to Perl Steering Council

  With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could…

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