Salve J. Nilsen

> That level of meta information really does feel like it's useful to each individual group - and that's what their mailing lists (or how ever they communicate) are for......

> One resource you might not be aware of: There is still a Group Leaders Mailman list, so the ~230 Group Leaders can all email each other en masse whenever...

Huh. Seems I was removed from pm_groups in 2009, and I didn't even notice :sweat_smile: But sure, that sounds like a good place to announce some updates and/or run a...

Seems https://www.pm.org/faq/admin.html already has a status attribute as part of the group elements. I can see the following ones: * active * inactive * sleeping * undef * dead *...

> > 1. consolidate the status values into a limited set of enums that clearly communicate what the current state of the group is. > > That's fine, I can...

Oh, and I guess some of the tooling in `bin/` may also need updating if the DTD/XML changes?

> Huh. I got a "pending subscriptions" email (Salve J. Nilsen) Tue Aug 13 02:46:56 2024, but I logged in and: > > > There are no pending requests. >...

> > Recruiting companies are still struggling finding Perl devs, and can _still_ be made easier if this is done _with_ community assistance, rather than how it's done now. >...

> > (On a side note: I think groups should be allowed to assign more members, so they aren't forced into creating another burnout-prone SPOF due to "pm.org policy") >...

> Perl Mongers is down to [28 groups that have 1+ posts to their mailing list this year](https://x6.develooper.com/~mailman/list-last-posts). Presumably several more groups are active, using things other than MailMan? I...