H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎)

• Made AIX send its smoke-reports to the database (train-work with Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎)
• Backported Configure-related commits from CORE to Metaconfig
• Several very useful discussions
• Fix smokers that stalled
• Merge stalled commits from metaconfig
• Analyze new open.t fails for PERLIO=stdio (with Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎))
• New probes for syscall and subsequent fixed as I broke core
• Sync whitespace work with Yves
• Update Release::Checklist to new agreements
• Investigate Test::Vars for Release::Checklist
• Close some GitHub issues

Karen Etheridge (‎Ether‎)

• released Module-Install-1.20 which removes Module::Install::DSL (and 1.21, to fix the errors I introduced in 1.20)
• fixed https://github.com/karenetheridge/misc/blob/master/install/generic/bin/pause-cleanup to not delete .readme, .meta files associated with distributions that still have indexed modules, and handle multiple releases on a single version with different distribution names
• patched for Module::Metadata to support `class` syntax: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Module-Metadata/pull/38 -- released as Module-Metadata-1.000038
• started on a patch to Catalyst::Devel to remove use of Module::Install
• released ExtUtils-Manifest-1.74 to include more MANIFEST.SKIP patterns
• released some distributions to remove the use of Module::Install::DSL:
  • File-Find-Rule-PPI-1.07
  • File-Find-Rule-VCS-1.09
  • CPAN-Mini-Extract-1.24
• whipped up a JSON Schema recipe for garu's cpansa (after getting him on irc!)
• reviewed and merged https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-Manifest/pull/17, which has been sitting there for far too long (and will be released tomorrow along with some anticipated changes from Paul)
• merged and released more ExtUtils::Manifest improvements, including one from mohawk that had been languishing for several years
• released Data::Visitor to remove an unneeded use of Sub::Name
• released Sub::Name to skip tests for deprecated ' separator on newer perls
• reviewed Tux's Release::Checklist for typos and accuracy (everything is still relevant!)
• released ExtUtils::Manifest again, to incorporate mohawk (Ed J)'s "in-memory" #include_default changes and to drop support for MacOS Classic
• released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::UnusedVars to change the test to always unconditionally use Test::Vars
• released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Run to fix some mswin32 path separator issues
• released JSON::MaybeXS to document the to_json and from_json functions
• released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PromptIfStale to handle DynaLoader now no longer being indexed

Paul Evans (‎LeoNerd‎)

• (group discussion) achieved a new wording for toolchain perl version requirements - https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/pull/11
• started looking at using `Module::Build::Tiny` in some of my dists. Much chat with Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) about what more features need adding to it to support more things
• (group discussion) talked about how to achieve multiple CPAN module indexes to support older perl versions - notes at https://demo.hedgedoc.org/rTx-xFuIRTqp9yKbxsY87Q
• Discussed with Chad Granum (‎Exodist‎) how to get Test2 into core
• Some minor improvements to `ExtUtils-Manifest`
• Discussed ideas of multi-variable/lexical `map` and `grep` with Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎) and Graham Knop (‎haarg‎)
• Accepted many feature addition patches from Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (‎ilmari‎) onto `Commandable`; released a new version to CPAN

Julien Fiegehenn (‎simbabque‎)

• participated in discussions about MetaCPAN UI improvements
• released WWW-Mechanize-2.17. Mechanize is now completely perltidied and runs tidyall tests on PRs
• LWP::UserAgent:
  • worked on existing PR 420 to get it into mergeable state
  • added tests to existing PR 73 and found and fixed a connection cache related bug in LWP with PR 424
  • rebased and fixed existing PR 62
  • fixed bug 421 relating to no_proxy
  • released libwww-perl-6.69
  • rebased and fixed [https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/91|existing PR 91) with help of the original contributor
  • POD fixes in PR 428

• URI:
  • fixed existing PR 31 relating to credentials where there is no password which closed issue 13
  • fixed existing PR 28 to improve documentation about host() and ihost()
  • merged PR 49
  • released URI-5.18
  • tried to fix dependant module test workflow

Andreas Koenig

• released CPAN-2.35 with the commit by Stig Palmquist that sets verify_SSL=>1 for HTTP::Tiny

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (‎ilmari‎)

• Submitted a PR for MetaCPAN to use CommonMark instead of MultiMarkdown, fixing fenced code block rendering.