On Perl 7 and the Perl Steering Committee

For those who are wondering about the state of the proposed Perl 7fork and the role of the newly formed Perl Steering Committee, RicardoSignes has put together a detailed explanation that is worth a read."You should not expect to see a stream of unjustified dictates issuing forthfrom some secret body on high. You should expect to see perl5-portersoperating as it generally did: with proposals coming to the list, gettingdiscussion, and then being thumbed up or down by the project manager. This iswhat has been happening for years, already. Some proposals were alreadydiscussed by the project manager and some were not. If you eliminated anynamed mailing list for doing this, it would still happen. The PSC is a meansto say that there is a default group for such discussions. If you werewondering, its initial membership was formed from 'the people who came to orwere invited to the Perl Core Summit' over the last few years."