PSC #215 2026-02-11

This week in PSC

All three of us attended.

* We spent a long time debating how to proceed with Karl’s proposal to
restrict legal identifier names for security. No consensus emerged, and we
resolved to ask the question in a venue with wider reach than p5p.

* We are faced with an absent maintainer of a CPAN-upstream dual-life
module, namely Encode. We discussed this situation in general terms but did
not get beyond the question itself – partly due to time constraints. We
agreed that this seems likely to occur more often in the future and that
p5p will need an agreed way of dealing with it, but what that should be is
too big a topic to be contained within the PSC meeting format.

* There are multiple PRs currently in flight, some of them rather large,
including Paul’s magic v2 and attributes v2. We decided that we are too
close to contentious changes freeze in this cycle to merge those.

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