Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated
Richard Speed Fri 7 May 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share
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A permaban from Perl events over unacceptable behaviour has been reduced to a year for the developer concerned, named by several separate Perl sources as Matt Trout.
The first iteration of a Transparency Report by the computer language s Community Affairs Team (CAT) was published a week after the Perl Core developer known as Sawyer X announced his intention to leave the Perl Steering Council over alleged community hostility toward him.
The report dealt with poor community conduct in general and also went into some detail (although the language is very unclear) on two investigations into what the CAT described as potentially unacceptable behavior over IRC and Twitter and an incident at a 2019 Perl event.
After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages says pumpking of version 5.x Share
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On Monday, the Perl Core developer known as Sawyer X announced his intention to leave the three-person Perl Steering Committee, or Council, and the Perl Core group because of what he described as community hostility.
Sawyer X, who became pumpking – manager of the core Perl 5 language – in 2016 when he took over that role from Ricardo Signes, explained his rationale for departing in a post to a Perl discussion list. Due to the continuous abusive behavior by prominent Perl community members and just about anyone else who also feels entitled to harass me (and unfortunately, other Core developers), I am stepping down from the Steering Council, from the Perl security list, and from the Perl Core, Sawyer said, adding that he is stepping down from the Perl Foundation s Grants Committee and that he will not be speaking at or attending the next Perl conference.
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The short-lived theft of Perl.com in late January is believed to have been the result of a social engineering attack that convinced registrar Network Solutions to alter the domain s records without valid authorization.
In a blog post published on Sunday, Perl.com website editor Brian D. Foy said as much, noting that while Network Solutions has not confirmed this theory, he spoke with other domain owners who reported a similar scheme.
Perl.com is a website focused on articles about the Perl programming language, overseen by managing editor David Farrell. The Perl Foundation (perl.org) is said to be involved in the .com site though Foy insists that s not the case. The foundation s post on the subject and Foy s reply in the comments section suggests an arm s length relationship between the two groups.
While a good deal smaller than the leading corporate open-source organization, The Linux Foundation, OIF has found a nice niche for itself in covering OpenStack-related open-source software. The OIF will continue to oversee OpenStack. But, with its 100-thousand community members, it will also help direct such cloud-friendly projects as Airship, Kata Containers, Magma, OpenInfra Labs, OpenStack, StarlingX, and Zuul.
The new group s platinum members are Ant Group, AT&T, Ericsson, FiberHome, Huawei, Red Hat, Wind River, and Tencent. They are joined by Facebook, which just became a top-level member. Altogether the OIF has more than 60 corporate members.
The bulk of the organizational work will be done under the OIF s 27-member board. Their numbers include Amar Padmanabhan, Facebook software engineer; Xu Wang; Ant Group senior staff engineer; and Daniel Becker, Red Hat s senior director of engineering. Allison Randal, the well-known open-source strategist; and Perl Foundation le