Perl Steering Council

All of us were present.

• We discussed the recent p5p thread about the proposed class :abstract attribute. Paul wants to write that because it’s a simple addition on current code and avoids design complications about roles. Aristotle doesn’t wish to introduce a new special-purpose feature now that will become redundant when a more general one is available later and wondered whether it can be introduced as roles that currently only support a small subset of features. No call has been made.
• The class discussions also extended to looking at the meta module and API, and the common idea between the two that it would be useful to get more people to use them and discuss future ideas. We would like people to step forward here.
• We have PR #24059 to implement the retraction of the deprecation of being able to call undefined import methods (and the reinstatement of a default-enabled warning for that case), thanks to haarg. We are keen to get it merged so we will provide feedback soon.
• The maint-votes process came up. We pondered whether we can conceive of something less obscure and will post to the list about this.

[P5P posting of this summary]