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From:
Tomasz Konojacki
Date:
September 19, 2023 17:51
Subject:
Re: Who maintains the POD spec?
Message ID:
20230919195149.59EF.5C4F47F8@xenu.pl
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:02:13 +0100
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> 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'm the one who made the most recent big proposals[1][2]. The reason why
they "fizzled out" was a combination of a several things:

- The pre-RFCs were submitted around the time when the RFC process was
changed. Originally, pre-RFCs were supposed to be reviewed and approved
or rejected by the PSC, but apparently you now have to ask them to do
that.

- There was some opposition to the tables proposal.

- I got busy and I had less time and energy to pursue the proposal.

[1] - Pre-RFC: images in Pod: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/11/msg261905.html
[2] - Pre-RFC: tables in Pod: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2021/11/msg261904.html

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