Perl Steering Council

After over a month without a PSC meeting, this was the first meeting of the new, shiny PSC. Today, we:

• welcomed Aristotle, and said goodbye to Paul
• discussed the current projects in flight, the PPC process and the onboarding tasks (preparing for next year already!)
• talked about POD, docstrings, and the Perl release process

Just Graham and Philippe this time.

We talked about HTTPS in core, and some ideas about it, while the CPAN Security Group is preparing some proposals. Today was the deadline for releasing 5.41.1, but we don’t have volunteers yet, so Graham said he would do it sometime soon.

We also noted that we’ll need some volunteers for the next 10 or so development releases.

Graham and Philippe met briefly today.

Now that Perl 5.40 is out, and the nomination process for the next PSC is underway, there wasn’t much to discuss, so we cut the meeting short.

The three of us were there, and our discussion covered:

• 5.40.0 has no more blocking bugs 🎉
• It should be released by the end of the week
• PPC0021 progress continues with Paul and Veesh discussing debugging and development
• The maintainer of HTTP::Tiny delegates design decisions to the PSC. There’s one PR outstanding that we looked over and found agreeable

This week it was just Paul and Philippe; we discussed the final changes for the upcoming RC2 and stable release, and marked some issues/PR as release blockers.

Graham expects to release 5.40-RC2 before the week-end.