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> First, opting in to an experimental feature could be a one-liner, “use experimental feature ‘try’” or similar. There’s no point in punishing your valuable beta testers beyond tha…

> That it would be maintained is all that really mattered to me, and there's no doubt in my mind that it would be. Nor mine, but because I know that Perl 7 would die as most of the…

You were reading between the lines, and the initial announcement was writing between them. But like I said, it is not feasible to maintain a LTS Perl 5 next to a fork of the interp…

The original proposal for Perl 7 was good at grabbing attention, but not good at being something that could reasonably be accomplished by the current set of core developers - it wo…

Sinking to their level doesn't move anyone forward.

For the record, shitting on other languages does not represent the values of Libera #perl. Though I personally would not use python or PHP, use whatever gets the job done.

The CPAN upload and the commit message are two separate incidents, but to your point, things can be removed from BackPAN through some effort, and efforts are being made.

Only the person who uploaded a distribution can schedule it for deletion, and yes, anyone could do this with currently-indexed versions of their modules. Relying foremost on the go…

The article has now been updated to correctly indicate that other than Sawyer, these events are specifically regarding TPF and not the community as a whole. Thanks to the author fo…

My comment saying this on the article has now been downvoted enough to hide it. I guess they don't care about the article making actively false statements like "The Perl community …

While you're correct, what they "left" is actually a non-programming legal foundation (other than Sawyer X), and so the commenter is actually correct that this ultimately does not …

There doesn't, and most of this doesn't actually affect the Perl community or development at large.

This article seems to be highly misinformed. The Perl Foundation is not The Perl Community. Sebastian Riedel and Curtis Poe are still very much involved in the community and develo…

Some hints (root is rasengan): jane_doe: hint the freenode network is its own sovereign state https://freenode.net/news/taking-irc-further#canceling-cance...

More context: they are in the (slow) process of shutting down servers one at a time and bringing them up running InspIRCd with new Anope services, with none of the old channel or n…

Curious what makes you think Python will be less susceptible to this, after the whole 2to3 debacle? I'll note that Perl just went through a year or so of painful argument to redisc…

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I don't see this having occurred in either direction. An assertion was made, contradicting details were provided, and then it became emotional due to past interactions.

None of the people directly involved (myself included) are core maintainers beyond the weakest definition of the term, and all of us (including Sawyer) were referencing the stated …

There is also a bit of context in the referenced mailing list posts, which are in response to a rationale given for Sawyer's initial Perl 7 plan - perhaps to us, repeating the argu…

There is, but I'm not aware of the specifics that led to this level of animosity. All I can say for sure is that over the past year or so, there has been arguments regarding Sawyer…

No one demanded he respond to every rebuttal in detail. Every reply presented alternate evidence which stands on its own without characterization. It was an asymmetrical exchange, …

There is an adoption process for truly inactive maintainers: http://neilb.org/2013/07/24/adopt-a-module.html - you can also often get somewhere by just asking the current maintaine…

It's not my understanding that the "Perl 7" idea suddenly gives license to be backwards incompatible. Instead, features that have been made available and gated in previous releases…