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From:
Tony Cook
Date:
September 19, 2023 13:40
Subject:
Re: Who maintains the POD spec?
Message ID:
ZQmkzrxN+qSPDIQW@venus.tony.develop-help.com
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 02:02:13PM +0100, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> Over the years there's been a couple of suggestions of features that
> people want adding to POD, that have gone back and forth and fizzled
> out mostly on the observation that it isn't really clear who would be
> responsible for updating/adding code to the various POD formatters or
> other consumers. I'd like to get to the bottom of this sometime, as I
> feel there's a steadily-growing list of "things that would be nice"
> that we don't have in POD.
> 
> I don't want to turn this thread into a discussion on the features
> themselves, but rather to work out *who* are the people to really get
> into that chat. I would like to be in a position where we can
> confidently go about adding some new features and abilities to the
> format where currently it is lacking.
> 
> Can anyone suggest who some important stake-holders or otherwise
> interested parties might be? Or at least, where we might find out?

The pod-people:

https://lists.perl.org/list/pod-people.html

There was some discussion of the image proposal there:

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.pod-people/2020/10/msg2110.html

The list has generally been very quiet.

Tony

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