PSC #230 2026-06-22

All three of us attended.

- We accepted a number of last-minute patches provided by Karl to
  improve our z/OS support stance, since they are strictly limited to
  that system and largely touch things that were broken there anyway.

- The worrying situation on CPAN Testers for the latest `HTTP::Tiny`
  situation cleared up; it was only caused by smokers-only tests against
  a live system that was intermittently unresponsive. Consequently we
  have now synchronized with CPAN, which means every one of the
  late-in-cycle release blockers we had is now addressed.
- Leon had already begun work on RC1 even before that.

- We touched base on LLM policy based on the feedback we have had on the
  thread so far. We have been chewing on some thoughts about that which
  are in draft state; we agreed that we should actually send them out
  soon.

- We discussed [one][1] of the [two][2] new PPC PRs, about viral value
  magic, which Leon and Aristotle realized is more similar to tainting
  and its limitations than previously understood. No verdict was
  reached; we will continue this discussion.

[1]: https://github.com/Perl/PPCs/pull/90
[2]: https://github.com/Perl/PPCs/pull/89

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