Sawyer is a loss cat herding/code wise, though I hope he'll be back when he decompresses some (there's a reason I've publicly stated I deserved to be smacked fo

Sawyer is a loss cat herding/code wise, though I hope he'll be back when he decompresses some (there's a reason I've publicly stated I deserved to be smacked for upsetting him, that was DUMB on my part) - though after I apologised for accidentally upsetting him, we've got back to chatting about code related stuff, so I think there's a decent chance my hope isn't misplaced. The other perl coder resignations are people resigning from the non-profit, not stepping away from the code. Sam has actually been a pretty damn effective community cat herder (and I say this as somebody for whom she was the lead inquisatrix, but I have enough moderation experience myself to not take that part personally) and I hope once she decompresses she'll come back. The only 'programming member of the community' we'll likely lose permanently is lizmat, and she'd already become a raku-only programming member of the community and deleted her entire set of perl5 cpan uploads without warning (breaking a number of users' installations) in a fit of pique because she's convinced the perl5 community is trying to persecute her, so between that and her active opposition to enforcement of basic standards of civility she won't realistically be missed.