PTS 2018 Projects
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Discussions
Are there things we should discuss this year?
MetaCPAN
- Joel Berger (jberger) floater
- Graham Knop (haarg)
MetaCPAN grep
- Todd Rinaldo (toddr) - Automate the git grep update process
- atoomic - features & bugs
CPAN Testers
- Doug Bell (preaction) Migrate remaining backend data processing tasks (CPAN uploads data and per-release rollup data) to Minion for reliability.
- Doug Bell (preaction) Start writing backwards-compatible replacement APIs for the Matrix that use live data (not cached data) to improve data turnaround time.
- Doug Bell (preaction) Show new automated test runner project to current testers for feedback.
- Joel Berger (jberger) floater
bread Breaks CPAN
Provide a way to automate detection of CPAN module failures against blead and report these up to p5p
- Todd Rinaldo (toddr)
- atoomic
PAUSE
CPAN Clients
cpanm 2 (Menlo)
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa)
Carmel
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa)
Module installation and testing
Static CPAN installation
Our current installation mechanism is very flexible (in a Turing complete way), but most of the time that isn't necessary. It could be useful if this dependency on shelling out to Makefile.PL/Build.PL could be eliminated where possible.
- Leon Timmermans (leont)
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa)?
Test::Needs
Extensions for environment, program, internet, threads, etc checks.
- Graham Knop (haarg)
Dist::Build
This is an extensible Build.PL implementation intended as a replacement for Module::Build, release is planned for this PTS.
Distribution metadata
ExtUtils::VersionParser
Version extraction from modules. Static parsing or options for evals. To be used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Metadata, PAUSE.
- Graham Knop (haarg)
CPAN::Changes
Changelog parser upgrade. Needs downstream testing.
- Graham Knop (haarg)
Authoring Tools
App::ModuleBuildTiny
This the minimalist authoring counterpart to Module::Build::Tiny. It's slowly gaining features and becoming a more complete authoring tool.
- Leon Timmermans (leont)
Perl 6
Perl5 core Configuration
cpancover
- Joel Berger (jberger) I'd like to pursue a project that Paul Johnson (pjcj) suggested right at the end of last year's PTS, to get cpancover to do (near) real-time coverage reports after uploads. This might or might not be organized under the auspices of metacpan
- Paul Johnson (pjcj) cpancover itself is in need of a little care:
- it has grown such that there is too much data of little value being stored for old CPAN releases
- the filesystem layout needs to reworked to reduce the number of files in directories so that metacpan can backup cpancover
- we need a development environment to safely develop new cpancover features
- and then we still need to properly integrate with metacpan
- Devel::Cover itself has various pull requests and bugs which need to be looked at
Individual Projects/Goals
Joel Berger
I'm happy to float project to project as needed and available
Nicolas R. (atoomic)
I'm going to focus on grep.MetaCPAN to tackle bugs from the GitHub tracked issues and features list. Help is always welcome if you are interested.
I also want to start the "blead breaks CPAN" meta project
H.Merijn Brand (tux)
I want to get the three categories for what we expect from authors regarding the QA of their modules based on the river-position more clear, and integrate that into clear documentation in Release::Checklist
I also want to iron out some problems left in CORE:Configure after commits to that file directly not backported to meta/dist. I'd also like to make progress in bringing down the maintenance burden by discussing the differences with dist/meta and merge what we agree on (needs discussion with Rafael Manfredi)
I want to sit with Abe to check how we can iron out issues with Test::Smoke. My concern here being what to do about *huge* log files.
I'd like to discuss best practices regarding testing ones release against multiple versions of supported modules. e.g. Foo::Bar fixed an issue using Hoo::Blo-0.43's new shiny feature, added tests for it, but does not want to fail for still supported Hoo::Blo-0.42 and older.
abeltje
- Investigate cpantesters reports of failing test suite and fix.
- Normalize the distribution to install in the regular library dirs
- Talk to SawyerX about an old idea to get better info from the smoke-reports, make a start with that
David Golden (xdg)
- Add reCAPTCHA to PAUSE ID request page
- Explore getting MetaCPAN usage data for authors via Google Analytics or web logs
- Address my issue backlog for toolchain modules I maintain
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