This week in PSC (189) | 2025-05-01
This extended meeting took place between the three of us in person over several days at the PTS 2025 in the beautiful city of Leipzig.
Release blocker triage continued, across two days. First we caught up with a dozen of new issues and pull requests, of which we identified one more PR as a small release blocker. The majority of our time was then spent considering each release blocker in depth and updating tickets with decisions and/or requests as we went along. A number of small blockers got resolved even during the course of our extended meeting.
While not a blocker, we also discussed the just-reported issue #23238 pointing out that the high-precedence xor operator
^^, added just a few releases ago, was missing an assigning form^^=. We asked Paul Evans to produce a patch so we could assess its extent, which we received from him the next day, and which we considered to be small enough to attempt shipping in this release.A significant amount of our time was spent contemplating the situation with
readline, as raised in issues #22883 and #23026, with a proposed patch by Tony Cook in #22907. We tentatively concluded that inconsistencies in the entire approach of dealing with the filehandle error flag seem to be at issue, and outlined our thoughts to Tony for feedback. This may necessitate a sizable change of behavior during this release cycle, so a delay of the release is now a possibility. We will continue to assess.
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