I was on the list pretty much from day one, and there was never an agreement that creating a special distribution of CPAN modules was a goal. Most of the talk was about creating an API similar to J2EE that existing modules could be glued into. That's a big task with little payoff for people who already have working solutions, and it got nowhere. There was a meeting at OSCON that year where we explicitly discussed what the goal of the project was. At the end of that conversation, it was clear that the only thing everyone really wanted out of it was marketing and promotion of Perl as an enterprise solution. That conversation was basically the end of the project as far as I was concerned, since there was no technical goal and we were not prepared to become a marketing group.