The PSC met today. In summary:

• Paul’s TPRF grant was accepted, he plans to spend some of that time to work on some PPCs first (qt strings, overload)
• FOSDEM Perl Devroom CfP: none of us are planning to attend in person, but if someone else wanted to present on our behalf we could coördinate with them and work out a subject to talk about
• Discussed coming up with a Perl roadmap that we could present to the world (and entice sponsorship for TPRF’s Perl Development Fund and Grants program)
• We discussed opening up our meetings to the occasional guest, so they could see what we’re actually doing (boring!) and give us an outside perspective

This week we:

• Reviewed some recent email threads:
  • Returning values from require multiple times - seems not useful as compared to using do FILE or the new load_module builtin
  • CPAN.pm observed to use lots of memory, but also complicated to fix. It might benefit a new smaller simpler tool being provided by Perl core
• Perl 5.39.5 is due soon and we have release managers up to 5.39.8, but we’re still in need of folks to do up to 5.40.0

We skipped the meeting last week (2023-11-02). This week was a quiet week too, so we don’t have much to report.

We talked a bit about the PPCs currently being implemented. PPCs 14 (English names) and 21 (optional chaining) have people implementing them - we hope to have some progress to publish soon.