Perl 5: Postcards from the Edge
By Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
Date: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:30
Duration: 45 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: perl
In Perl 5’s development, all changes land in the “blead” branch first: the bleading edge. Each year, more of these changes escape the blead branch and land in the year’s stable release of perl. Over the course of that year, they’re tested, argued over, redesigned, and then either accepted or rejected.
In this talk, Perl 5’s project manager will report on the year’s work, giving demonstrations of the new features added to Perl 5.18 as well as the old features marked for removal. We’ll look at features on the horizon for the next year or two.
All these changes go through the perl5-porters mailing list, an exciting, excited, sometimes dysfunctional collection of programmers and devotees, and we’ll talk about how that group works or doesn’t work, and what we’re trying to do to keep things awesome.
- Nova Patch (patch)
- Hugh Esco
- Stevan Little (stevan)
- Tim Bunce
- Bruce Gray (Util)
- Jason McIntosh (jmac)
- John Anderson (genehack)
- Craig Treptow (ctreptow)
- David Olson
- Dave Rolsky (autarch)
- Patrick Michaud (Pm)
- Reini Urban (rurban)
- Dan Wright (ehdonhon)
- Curtis Jewell (CSJewell)
- Michael Cox
- Karen Etheridge (Ether)
- Michael McClennen
- Mark Stosberg
- Mark Allen (mallen)
- Kevin Shaum
- Olaf Alders (oalders)
- Arthur Schmidt (fREW)
- James Morgan (Ven'Tatsu)
- Will Natale
- Kevin Zembower
- Phillip Upton (phillup)
- James E Keenan (kid51)
- Dana Jacobsen (danaj)
- Brian Gottreu
- Stephen Wilcoxon (wilcoxon)
- Jeff Benton
- jerry gay (particle)
- Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
- Breno Oliveira (garu)
- parv
- Uri Guttman (uri)
- Chris Nehren (apeiron)
- Graham Knop (haarg)
- Joe Papperello
- Jennifer Griffin
- Mike Greb (mikegrb)
- Rikus Goodell
- Faelin Landy (wolf)
- Mike Salter
- Frank Sheiness (archon)
- Vat Raghavan (MachinShin)
- Ross Steiner (rdsteiner)
- James Wilkus
- Chris Millard (cmillard)
- Eric Ross
- Wes Malone (wesm)
- Thomas Stanton (tstanton)
- Chip Salzenberg (Chip)
- Rob Duncan (robd)
- Sterling Hanenkamp (zostay)
- Andrew Grangaard (spazm)
- Jameson Allen
- Pippa Bindel
- Brandon Kallus
- Rick Scott (shadowspar)
- Josh Miers
- Tommy Butler (Tommy)
- Christopher Madsen (cjm)
- Brad Oaks (bradoaks)
- Mark Jubenville (ioncache)
- Matt Monsen
- Greg Estep
- Jay Hannah (jhannah)
- Deven Corzine (deven)
- Daniel Sterling (HighBit)
- Jay Allen (jayallen)
- Chanda Unmack (teleute)
- Buddy Burden (barefootcoder)