Perl Steering Council

All three of us attended.

• We accepted a number of last-minute patches provided by Karl to improve our z/OS support stance, since they are strictly limited to that system and largely touch things that were broken there anyway.
• The worrying situation on CPAN Testers for the latest HTTP::Tiny situation cleared up; it was only caused by smokers-only tests against a live system that was intermittently unresponsive. Consequently we have now synchronized with CPAN, which means every one of the late-in-cycle release blockers we had is now addressed.
• Leon had already begun work on RC1 even before that.
• We touched base on LLM policy based on the feedback we have had on the thread so far. We have been chewing on some thoughts about that which are in draft state; we agreed that we should actually send them out soon.
• We discussed one of the two new PPC PRs, about viral value magic, which Leon and Aristotle realized is more similar to tainting and its limitations than previously understood. No verdict was reached; we will continue this discussion.

[P5P posting of this summary]