Perl Toolchain Summit Results

H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Devel::PPPort : discuss, amend documentation, test on 126 versions of perl (5.6.1 .. 5.27.10), integrate into CORE
• PR for Module::CPANTS::Kwalitee (skip files in MANIFEST.SKIP)
• general hints and helps regarding Configure
• Streamline Configure/Metaconfig issues with Aaron Crane (‎arc‎)
• System::Info changes for Breno Oliveira (‎garu‎) and Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎)

Fri 2018-04-20

• Left rakudobrew for direct perl6 and zef builds and prompter timings
• Big discussion on dual-life modules
• Discussion on including local::lib to CORE
• Verify David Golden (‎xdg‎)'s manual for PAUSE by installing PAUSE locally, setting it up and verifying all works

David Golden (‎xdg‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Discovered that the README for setting up a private PAUSE for testing was out of date

• Learned how to install and configure mysql and nginx via macports
• Learned how to configure a private PAUSE on my laptop (with generous help from Kenichi Ishigaki (‎charsbar‎))
• Updated the README based on my findings, including how to turn off TLS to run with just plackup and no reverse proxy
• Added reCAPTCHA client code for PAUSE's request_id page, protected by a feature flag
• Added server-side code for PAUSE to validate reCAPTCHA responses, except for the actual new user registration when it validates
• Uploaded new Types::Path::Tiny with fixed test files

Leo Lapworth (‎ranguard‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• http://blogs.perl.org/users/leo_lapworth/2018/04/pts-2018---day-1.html

Tina Müller (‎tinita‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Created 5 Pull requests:
  • Test::Base Support the use of plain `use Test::Base` without any tests. (Merged) Fixes a Test::YAML/Test::Base problem with CPAN::Reporter, reported by Slaven Rezic
  • YAML.pm Add support for less indented comments in block scalars
  • YAML.pm Support trailing comments where this has been an error before
  • YAML.pm WIP: Support ignoring trailing comments after content
  • YAML.pm Remove dead code ($class is never set here)
• Started to make an overview of how numbers are serialized with all existing JSON/YAML processors

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Merged and released HTTP::Tiny PRs
• Released MetaCPAN download_uri API support for cpanm
• Menlo repo split is split from cpanminus repo, and then back again to cpanminus repo with subdirectories
• Removed cpanm guts and made it a shim for Menlo backend, to avoid maintaining two codebases forever https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/pull/567
• Updated the tools to generate cpanm fatpack library

Fri 2018-04-20

• Shipped cpanm 1.8 trial that has the new Menlo-based cpanm executable
• Support `dist` keyword in cpanfile and cpanm/Menlo https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/pull/568

Sawyer X (‎Sawyer X‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Released Storable.... and it's b0rked.
• Researched and bug fix for Ref::Util (with Aaron Crane (‎arc‎) and Karen Etheridge (‎Ether‎))
• Merged histories of Devel::PPPort (CPAN and core diverged)

Fri 2018-04-20

• Found problem with Storable
• Released perl 5.27.11
• Discussion on dual-life modules (with results!)

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