Perl Steering Council

All three of us attended.

• We spent a long time debating how to proceed with Karl’s proposal to restrict legal identifier names for security. No consensus emerged, and we resolved to ask the question in a venue with wider reach than p5p.

• We are faced with an absent maintainer of a CPAN-upstream dual-life module, namely Encode. We discussed this situation in general terms but did not get beyond the question itself – partly due to time constraints. We agreed that this seems likely to occur more often in the future and that p5p will need an agreed way of dealing with it, but what that should be is too big a topic to be contained within the PSC meeting format.

• There are multiple PRs currently in flight, some of them rather large, including Paul’s magic v2 and attributes v2. We decided that we are too close to contentious changes freeze in this cycle to merge those.

[P5P posting of this summary]