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From:
Tom Ryder via perl5-porters
Date:
June 28, 2020 05:06
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
20200628050605.GC16508@arjuna.sanctum.geek.nz
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 06:20:38PM +0300, Sawyer X wrote:
>We (and this "we" includes you, Leon) know for a very long time now 
>that p5p, the mailing list, is not a very practical place to discuss 
>major changes.

My objection is that the community didn't get a chance to discuss the 
changes at all, whether on perl5-porters or nay.  The changes were 
announced after being decided by an apparently closed group---and were 
already considered sufficiently finalised that a book has been released 
by one of the group about preparing for the changes, announced in the 
very same post.  It looks very much like a fait accompli.

<https://leanpub.com/preparing_for_perl7>

Per my original question, would you please go into more detail on why 
perl5-porters was intentionally insulated from this decision?

Could you also clarify why you felt it necessary to mislead the list 
about the existence of these plans in the post I linked?

<http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/257448>

>Everyone that was involved with this was in a shared file and viewable 
>by everyone else. It was clear who was involved.

Well, now that the changes the group intends to make are public, would 
you tell *us* who was involved, and how they were selected?

-- 
Tom Ryder <https://sanctum.geek.nz/>
Maybe we can bring back the light.

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