Perl Steering Council

Back to the full roster.

• We talked again about Perl 42. We think it may already be too late for it in this cycle, so we want to make a thorough case for it by releasing a side tarball for the end of this cycle, and if no technical blocker is found, actually do the jump to 44 in the next cycle.
• We listed out next steps for the next point release.
• Aristotle summarized the suggested simplification of our plan for TLS in core, but a fuller discussion next week is necessary.
• PPC 0014 (English names) has no implementer.
• There was a branch for PPC 0021 (Optional chaining) but the implementer hit a wall and got stuck.
• Regarding the dual PPCs 0030 (equ) and 0031 (eq:u), we lean towards the former. Options would be cleaner if we had a big and regular set of them across operators, but neither is the case, and they constitute an extra concept.
• Many thanks to Dave Cross for providing an initial implementation of a PPC index page. We decided to merge it as is, then iterate on the PPC process afterwards, instead of doing it the other way around.

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