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The process of adopting a new governance model for the Perl project appears
to be reaching an end; the new model is designed to look a lot like the
one adopted by the Python project. “So, now Perl has two
well-defined bodies involved in its governance: a core team of a few dozen
and a steering council of three people. The core team sets the rules of
Perl governance, votes on membership of the two groups, and delegates
substantial decision making power to the steering council. The steering
council has broad authority to make decisions about the development of the
Perl language, the interpreter, and all other components, systems and
processes that result in new releases of the language interpreter.”
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