Ilya posts a patch to the regular expression engine. Sarathy replies saying that it doesn't have enough comments to document it. Tom points out that there're no pod patches to document the new features. Ilya replies that they're experimental and will be documented if accepted. Tom curses all things Cossack in words of seven syllables or more.
Discussion peters out.
Sarathy posts a patch to fix a bug that most people didn't know existed. Sarathy posts a patch to fix a bug that most people didn't know existed. Someone asks why their bug reports aren't making it to perl5-porters. Investigation reveals that nobody's bug reports are making it to perl5- porters. Suddenly a hundred and fifty bug reports flood into perl5-porters.