Perl 5 is handled by the perl5-porters mailing list; basically, there's a Pumpking per perl5 major version (currently the active ones are 8, 10, and the 11 bran

Perl 5 is handled by the perl5-porters mailing list; basically, there's a Pumpking per perl5 major version (currently the active ones are 8, 10, and the 11 branch that will eventually become 12) who has final authority, with a set of committers who are generally expected to know when they can JFDI and when to check, and lots of bikesheddi^Whelp from the mailing list subscribers and denizens of irc.perl.org #p5p The usual combination of dictatorship, oligarchy and democracy, basically :)