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 continue on the mailing list for now.
- The PrePPC about
@INC dirs seems good enough to progress to a full PPC document for further discussion of details; in particular specifics about non-UNIX operating systems.
- We want to find a more coherent concept for “hooking core functionality” and possibly the
%{^HOOKS} hash in particular, before considering such possibilities as a replacable random number generator. E.g. do $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} belong in here?
- Specifically on providing a hook for generating random data, it feels like the
rand() (and srand()) function interface provided by Perl is itself a limitation for getting good behaviour. This might need looking into before simply replacing a better source of randomness.
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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.
We began discussing ideas on what it would look like to support the idea of local::lib and similar techniques better by perl core itself, handling perl version upgrades and so on.
We discussed improving the dual-life module release process to make it easier and prevent mistakes.
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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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