Want to help?

We're looking for volunteers to help with some of the perl.org systems.  Here are some specific examples:

• Reply to some of the random emails that get sent to the wrong place.  (for example, "How do I do X in Perl?" sent to the webmaster address.)
• Improve our spam filtering.  (Also, clean up our postfix setup.)
• Migrate services to Docker.
• Identify inactive Perl Mongers groups (and clean up linked services.)

If you're interested in these (or other projects), please drop an email to webmaster at perl.org.

Update: We received a lot of responses and are working with our first batch of new volunteers to get these and some other projects done.  Thanks to everyone who responded! 

DMARC and Mailing Lists

We have reverted the filter that rejected postings to perl.org mailing lists from domains with strict DMARC configurations.  (For example: yahoo.com and aol.com)

We've chosen to implement the "rewrite From:" mechanism for supporting this (similar to option b).  It's not perfect, but it's relatively straightforward to understand and implement.

Unscheduled Unavailbility

We're currently having (unscheduled, unplanned, unwanted) unavailability of perl.org services.  We think it's a hardware failure in the critical path.

Apologies for the disruption.  We'll update this post as more information becomes available.

Update: 8:00pm America/Los_Angeles.
Everything is back up now.