Perl Steering Committee
Intro
The "Perl Steering Committee" is responsible for the Design & implementation of the Perl programming language
Governance
Leader: 🥇Sawyer
Deputy: 🥈Todd Rinaldo (ONLY an provisional replacement in an unexpected absence)
Responsibilities:
This group is the authority and reponsible for:
- Being the custodian of the official Perl release
- Owner of the PERL pause account
- Owner of the Perl repo (to be renamed)
- Owner of metaconfig
- Responsible for security and maintenance releases.
- Design
- Development
- Decisions,
- Experiment, research
- Release
- Roadmap
- Perl core
Not responsible for
- CPAN
Membership
To add: Three supporters, no objections carried - same as set up for Perl 4
Ways someone might exit the group:
- Request to exit
- Default expiry one year for inactivity
- Vote out
Member resposbilities:
The primary purpose of members is to: Work out the 'how' together - Design & technology authority
Other responsibilities
- Public support of the group and members
- Actively support the leadership
- Find effective ways to communicate with peers
- Understand the meeting etiquette
Current Perl Steering Committee members
- Sawyer
- Paul Evans
- Todd Rinaldo
- H.Merijn Brand
- James E Keenan
- Karl Williamson
- Nicolas Rochelemagne
- Yves Orton
- Leon Timmermans
- Dave Mitchell
- Aaron Crane
- Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
- Hugo van der Sanden
- Tony Cook
- Steve Hay
