Sawyer X has announced his resignation from the Perl Project's Board of Directors and from the Core Team. He also stepped down as Perl's release planner, retired from the grant committee, resigned from a Perl conference talk, and deleted his Twitter account. At the same time, Sawyer X expressed his readiness to complete the Perl 5.34.0 release, which is in development, scheduled for May, after which he will remove his access to GitHub, CPAN and mailing lists.
The departure is explained by the unwillingness to endure the mocking, offensive and unfriendly behavior of some members of the community. The last straw was a discussion about the feasibility of retaining some of the deprecated features of the Perl language (Sawyer X is one of the initiators of the creation of a branch of Perl 7, designed to replace Perl 5 with backward compatibility, which some other developers disagree with).
Following a restructuring of the project's management process, Sawyer X, along with Ricardo Signes and Neil Bowers, was elected to the management board that makes decisions related to the development of Perl. Prior to that, since April 2016, Sawyer X served as the leader of the Perl project (βpumpkingβ), responsible for coordinating the work of developers.
Source: opennet.ru