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'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated' Richard Speed Fri 7 May 2021 // 08:30 UTC Share Copy 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 w...

'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x Share Copy 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 communi...