Perl Steering Council

The three of us attended another long meeting:

• We continued refining our plan for TLS in core. We will collect feedback on its feasibility from the maintainers of the relevant modules.
• We reviewed the status of putting the apostrophe package separator behind a feature and approved the PR.
• We confirmed that we want to deprecate smartmatch with a feature. This effectively means that we don’t plan for a “better smartmatch” at this time (but it can still be pursued in future, by way of the air gap strategy, if there is appetite). We will file an issue for this.
• We agreed that “negative” features (rather than outright removal) is our preferred way to deprecate historical Perl quirks as the language continues to evolve.
• We discussed our ongoing inadequacy at dealing with maintenance releases. We wrote down next steps to get back on track, and also started looking into capturing a checklist to document the process.

[P5P posting of this summary]