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
• Build/test/install perl-5.27.11 on laptop and dromedary + some basic module testing

Sat 2018-04-21

• Test Devel::PPPort-3.40 on many XS modules and many perl versions
• Discussion on tooling for up-river authors (The Berlin Consensus + Release::Checklist)

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• Discovered that the README for setting up a private PAUSE for testing was out of date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

Fri 2018-04-20

• Studied PAUSE user registration codepaths
• Factored out sending PAUSE one-time password email
• Factored out sending PAUSE welcome emails
• Wired up PAUSE for directly adding users with recaptcha
• Submitted PAUSE PR for recaptcha work
• Discussed ideas with Rik for a "permissions manager" for PAUSE to ease the transition to adding an Admin level

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 perl JSON/YAML processors

Fri 2018-04-20

• Still working on the number+JSON+YAML overview: https://gist.github.com/perlpunk/35a07521b07aeea5a6c23a7d068233e7
• Added a Haskell YAML processor to the YAML Test Matrix which is written on top of the YAML reference parser, so we can spot mistakes in the Spec more easily
• Started to implement LoadBlessed (deactivating loading objects) for YAML.pm
• YAML::PP now supports Inf and NaN (not yet on CPAN)

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!)

Shoichi Kaji (‎skaji‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Now cpm supports --pureperl-only build https://metacpan.org/release/SKAJI/App-cpm-0.964
• Created App::cpm::Requirement which will improves how to merging requirements https://metacpan.org/release/SKAJI/App-cpm-0.965
• Experimentally implemented "hook" feature in cpm. Maybe I should call it "prefs" insted of "hook" https://github.com/skaji/cpm/pull/119

Fri 2018-04-20

• Released a new CPAN module Command::Runner, where I finally implemented timeout feature for executing external programs in Windows! https://metacpan.org/release/SKAJI/Command-Runner-0.001
• Use Command::Runner in cpm https://github.com/skaji/cpm/pull/120
• Follow recent Menlo changes https://metacpan.org/release/SKAJI/App-cpm-0.966

Karen Etheridge (‎Ether‎)

Thu 2018-04-19

• Devel::PPPort discussion (arc, ilmari, leont, sawyer, Tux, me)
• provided a fix to an installation issue in Ref::Util
• released File-Temp-0.2305-TRIAL (Win32 taint fixes) and merged/closed a bunch of pull requests
• released Mac-SystemDirectory-0.11-TRIAL and 0.12-TRIAL (darwin gcc fixes)
• released Test-Pod-1.52 (added *.psgi to the search list)
• released Task-Weaken-1.06 (fixed dynamic prereqs for Scalar::Util)
• submitted PRs:
  • https://github.com/rjbs/Dist-Zilla-PluginBundle-RJBS/pull/6
  • https://github.com/rjbs/Test-Deep/pull/72

Fri 2018-04-20

• group discussion on best practices on handling dual-life module maintenance
• released File-ShareDir-Install-0.12
• group discussion on possibly putting local::lib into core
• merged https://github.com/moose/Moose/pull/160
• released a new strictures, for warnings categories added in 5.28
• improved travis testing for Sub-Name, Scalar-List-Utils
• discussed a cpan module security list for handling vulnerabilities

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