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We as a community have been jibbering a lot about improving perl5. How we want more releases of perl5; how we want our favorite ideas in perl5; how various segments of the community may or may not matter to our immediate universe. God knows that I’ve contributed to the jibbering, for better or for worse.
It’s time for something to happen. Rafael said it in a well written post. In case you missed it, I’m going to say this as simply as I know how.
Code/Docs or STFU
There are lots of places to help. If you need help, epo and corehackers are more than willing the point you in a direction, ranging from introductory to super-advanced. If you don’t need help, subscribe to p5p, join #p5p on irc.perl.org, look at the perl5 rt queue and get to work.
I’m tired of talking. I’m tired of reading blog posts with no actions behind them. This is your perl and it’s not going to improve on its own. p5p are hard at work on the core and, unless you are too, your “contributions” are just noise and static that are distracting our core team from writing code and doing things that matter