All three of us attended.
- The release is imminent while Chris Williams, who usually releases Module::CoreList, is temporarily absent. We were not all sure whether this would require any additional coordination. Phillipe had sent mail to clarify the situation. We concluded that there is no issue because CoreList is an outlier: it is not upstream-CPAN but neither is it upstream-blead, while nevertheless being maintained in core. A lagging CPAN release won’t be a problem, even though that’s not the usual sequence. In the event, Chris responded to the mail with assurance that he is available enough anyway.
- We coordinated further about the release, which is coming up the following week.
- Release blocker triage this week ended as it began: with no blockers.
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Graham couldn’t make it, so only Aristotle and Philippe this week.
- We discussed the structure of the feature.pm documentation and how unfeatures should be covered. Philippe has provided a first patch which extends the description of each unfeature with a note stating from which feature bundle onward it is disabled.
- Relesae blocker triage continues. The meeting began without any unresolved blockers and ended the same way.
- Philippe plans to ship 5.42.0-RC1 as soon as the last missing perldelta entries are in.
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All three of us attended.
- Release blocker triage yielded no new blockers. We followed up on the issues we were already tracking.
- The security release made some progress this week, but has been held up by the lack of a perldelta entry.
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All three of us attended.
- Release blocker triage continues. Several more blockers have been resolved. We identified no blockers among new tickets but did consider #23346 and may ship it even if we do not consider it a blocker.
- We discussed some feedback regarding the fix for CVE-2025-40909 and requested that the patch be amended. A perldelta entry is also missing before we can ship the security releases.
- We discussed who will do then stable release and when. RC1 will be published by Philippe Bruhat on June 20th.
- We went over the scalar-context pair constructor proposal. Changing the fat arrow in general is out of the question and we don’t think any other proposal is likely to work.
- We went over the 2-arg open proposal. It seems mostly trivial to do and worthwhile as well, but the real complexity is in the implicit
open done by readline. We will outline our thoughts on the thread.
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Just Aristotle and Graham this week.
- This week CVE-2025-40909 was assigned, for an issue we were already tracking (GH #23010). We coordinated during the week to get a fix merged (GH #23019) before 5.41.13. Thanks to Vincent Lefèvre for the report and Leon Timmermans for the fix. During the meeting we discussed getting out security releases for this soon.
- We caught up on release blocker triage. We are tentatively all clear: all previously identified release blockers are now resolved, and there were no new blockers in recent issues and pull requests – except possibly a 32-bit Windows build issue we are not yet certain about. We are keeping an eye on that.
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