For those who are wondering about the state of the proposed Perl 7
fork and the role of the newly formed Perl Steering Committee, Ricardo
Signes has put together a detailed explanation that is worth a read.
“You should not expect to see a stream of unjustified dictates issuing forth
from some secret body on high. You should expect to see perl5-porters
operating as it generally did: with proposals coming to the list, getting
discussion, and then being thumbed up or down by the project manager. This is
what has been happening for years, already. Some proposals were already
discussed by the project manager and some were not. If you eliminated any
named mailing list for doing this, it would still happen. The PSC is a means
to say that there is a default group for such discussions. If you were
wondering, its initial membership was formed from ‘the people who came to or
were invited to the Perl Core Summit’ over the last few years.“

Source: LWN.net – On Perl 7 and the Perl Steering Committee