For the last meeting of the year we were all present again.
We have requested further input regarding our plan for TLS in core.
We picked the ball back up that we dropped regarding point releases. They should be coming soon.
We went over our findings so far regarding Perl 42. It looks like Perl versions will have to continue to be written with three components, so we will be stuck with a fixed .0 at the end. It’s slightly annoying, but we can live with it. We strategized about how to get more real-world data about feasibility, and discussed the possibility of releasing a perl-41.8 tarball alongside the regularly scheduled perl-5.41.8.
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All three of us attended.
- We discussed the version 42 work on the
psc/ppc0025 branch. We have an initial proof of concept that is almost good enough to test against CPAN in order to assess whether the plan is actually feasible and proceed from there. We discussed the timeline for this.
- We reviewed our plan for TLS in core. Some questions came up based on the conversation on the p5p thread and we need specific next steps now that Craig has provided a patch for the first one. We hashed out next steps to keep this moving.
- We briefly discussed the Random::Simple suggestion and decided we won’t address it at this time. (The inclusion of cryptography libraries in core will probably change the situation here in the foreseeable future.)
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This week felt like a PSC reunion meeting. We extended invitations to join us for a discussion of the version change to a number of core contributors, and ended up joined by ex-PSC members Ricardo and Paul (Neil would have joined, but couldn’t make it).
There is skepticism but no strong opposition. The benefits are in some doubt, and resources to implement this will not come from core contributors. So we want to experiment on a branch to get a handle on feasibility and viability, which we hope will give us better data to evaluate the proposal and, we hope, allay any worries.
We also briefly discussed our intentions for the PPC process with Paul. We are thinking about an automatically generated status page on GitHub Pages.
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