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• Posted This week in PSC (238) | 2026-10-05 to Perl Steering Council

  The three of us discussed:

  • There is overall agreement that @INC handling should be improved, but there are still outstanding questions and issues that overlap with build modules, installer tools, and so on. Plan is to publish a partial document so far…
• Posted This week in PSC (237) | 2026-09-28 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us (plus Graham’s cat) met as usual.

  • Discussions about some case-matching syntax ideas continue on the mailing list. PSC is following along but for now there does not seem to be a need to come to an official response.
  • From this it sounds like finding a bet…
• Posted This week in PSC (236) | 2026-09-22 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us met.

  • Talked about the two “match case” proposals. The two seem to cover different intents, so it’s not clear that either just replaces the other. The destructuring concept is nice in principle but needs further discussion. We will let discussions con…
• Posted This week in PSC (235) | 2026-09-14 to Perl Steering Council

  The first meeting of the newly-elected group.

  We did some initial handover tasks (github groups, mailing lists)

  We intend to do some point releases for 5.44 and 5.42 to include some security fixes and build issue bugfixes. We will take suggestions on what other fixes to be included…

• Posted This week in PSC (234) | 2026-07-20 to 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.

  [P5P posting of this s…

• Posted This week in PSC (233) | 2026-07-13 to Perl Steering Council

  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 edi…
• Posted This week in PSC (232) | 2026-07-06 to Perl Steering Council

  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…

• Posted This week in PSC (231) | 2026-06-29 to Perl Steering Council

  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 attem…
• Posted This week in PSC (230) | 2026-06-22 to Perl Steering Council

  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 la…
• Posted This week in PSC (229) | 2026-06-16 to Perl Steering Council

  This week we had to reschedule to Tuesday in order to attend in full strength.

  • Release blocker triage continues and fortunately has not turned up anything new, but unfortunately has not delivered full resolution of already-known issues either: ="https://fast2-matrix.cpantester…
• Posted This week in PSC (228) | 2026-06-08 to Perl Steering Council

  We were all present.

  • 5.43.11 has so far turned up a few problems, thankfully small. As a result there are new versions of Archive::Tar and HTTP::Tiny to sync, which we intend to merge.
  • We decided how to proceed with our schedule: we will wait another week for any other findi…
• Posted This week in PSC (227) | 2026-06-01 to Perl Steering Council

  This week we were back to full strength. We have now dealt with all of the belated issues and all of the blockers. Paul will be shipping 5.43.11 very shortly. With the amount of changes we have had to merge, we will not be able to rush the .11 cycle, but we intend to start the work on the 5.44 RC…

• Posted This week in PSC (226) | 2026-05-25 to Perl Steering Council

  Paul is away this week so only Leon and Aristotle were present. A number of the belated-for-this-cycle issues have been addressed this week and we are following up on the remaining ones. We do not yet have a firm commitment for the release manager for 5.43.11.

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• Posted This week in PSC (225) | 2026-05-18 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended. We are dealing with a spate of (important, but thankfully relatively small) issues reported late in the cycle, so there will be a 5.43.11 dev release. We do not currently have a release manager for it yet and will ask for volunteers on the list.

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• Posted This week in PSC (224) | 2026-05-11 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended further final release preparation. Issue triage continued; a number of small issues came in late, and we merged some of them. We also ="#24410 Revert \"SelfLoader: don't mix buffered and unbuffered…

• Posted This week in PSC (223) | 2026-05-04 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended for some more issue triage. We accepted some assorted small fixes and CPAN dual-life module updates. The release blocker list remains empty.

  [P5P posting …

• Posted This week in PSC (222) | 2026-04-25 to Perl Steering Council

  This meeting took place at the Perl Toolchain Summit 2026. All three of us met in person in Vienna and reviewed our release blocker status. Things are in the clear: no new blockers have come in since last meeting, and the previously identified ones are already resolved, with a single exception,…

• Posted This week in PSC (221) | 2026-04-13 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended this long meeting consisting entirely of dealing with release blockers.

  • We found no blockers among the issues and patches new since last week.

  • We weighed up ="#23676 BBC: Blead Break…

• Posted This week in PSC (220) | 2026-04-06 to Perl Steering Council

  We were all present.

  • We noted that core team membership votes are concluding on this day.
  • We are waiting for voting to conclude before we kick off the discussion about an LLM policy.
  • Release blocker triage continues. We are now fully caught up and marked a few more …
• Posted This week in PSC (219) | 2026-03-30 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended.

  • We discussed policy questions that were turned up by the recent submission of some LLM-generated PRs. We need to hold conversation about this among the Core team. No contributions of this kind will be accepted while the discussion is still ongoing.

• Posted This week in PSC (218) | 2026-03-16 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended this long meeting covering quite a bit ground:

  • CVE-2026-3381 obliges us to cut a 5.42.2 point release with an updated Compress::Raw::Zlib.

  • We accepted Philippe’s and Eric’s of…

• Posted This week in PSC (217) | 2026-03-09 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us were present for a quick meeting.

  • We discussed the progress of our outreach to some potential new core team members. We will be holding a vote once we hear back from everyone.

  • We noticed that a minor step in the PSC transition was missed during this…

• Posted This week in PSC (216) | 2026-03-02 to Perl Steering Council

  After two weeks of various people absent on various travels, we got the band back together for a fairly adminstrivial meeting.

  • Contentious changes freeze has set in, so we will now be monitoring for release blockers. We took stock of the currently open issues and PRs from this rel…

• Posted This week in PSC (215) | 2026-02-11 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us attended.

  • We spent a long time debating how to proceed with Karl’s proposal to restrict legal identifier names for security. No consens…

• Posted This week in PSC (214) | 2026-02-02 to Perl Steering Council

  With Leon at FOSDEM it was only Paul and Aristotle this week, but the discussion ranged widely.

  • We have run out of release manager volunteers and need people to step up.
  • We briefly reviewed ="https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/;msgid=61DB7DA4-43D3-4519…
• Posted This week in PSC (213) | 2026-01-26 to Perl Steering Council

  All three of us discussed:

  • We agree with the general idea of an improved PRNG, so we encourage Scott to continue working on the PR to get it into a polished state ready for merge
  • Haarg’s ="https://github.com…
• Posted This week in PSC (212) | 2026-01-19 to Perl Steering Council

  All of us were present.

  • We discussed the recent p5p thread about the proposed class :abstract attribute. Paul wants to write that because it’…
• Posted This week in PSC (211) | 2026-01-12 to Perl Steering Council

  Just Paul and Aristotle this week.

  We mostly discussed the experimental refaliasing and declared_refs features to see if we can find a path towards declaring at least the latter non-experimental. This would be useful in its …

• Posted This week in PSC (210) | 2026-01-05 to Perl Steering Council

  After skipping a week again due to circumstances, all three of us attended this shorter meeting, which Paul had to leave early.

  • We went over a number of pending administrative requests, including possible additions to the core team and the process to follow for this.

  • …
• Posted This week in PSC (209) | 2025-12-15 to Perl Steering Council

  The stars aligned and all three of us managed to get together.

  We mostly talked about PPCs, both in the general shape of the process, and specifically the latest proposal, PPC0034.

  • Given how the PPC process has worked out in practice, we discussed how much sense it makes and …

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