PTS 2019 Projects

Add projects below that you're thinking of working on. If you see someone else's project that you'd like to help on, add your name, but email them as well please.

PAUSE

Pen testing of PAUSE

Using various tools to scan a local instance of PAUSE to check for any vulnerabilities and then looking into necessary changes. Depending on how long this takes this can also be done on other public facing tools/sites.

  • Lee

MetaCPAN

Some MetaCPAN project

Benchmarking

Revive Perl::Formance

  • make it work for new Perl 5 releases
  • actually run new benchmarks
  • create results page and update http://perlformance.net
  • make the project more approachable for others

TAP::DOM in Elasticsearch

  • create mappings and code to put TAP::DOMs into Elasticsearch
  • planned as new base for my traditional Tapper query apis
  • ask for feedback, get tips from more experienced Elasticsearch users
  • this is mostly meant as discussion/prototype/kick-off work

Test2

  • Fix issues on Test2/Test-Simple
  • Fix issues on Test2-Suite
  • Work on Test2-Harness

CPAN Testers

  • Doug Bell (‎preaction‎)
    • Complete Github auth module (started at meta::hack 2018)
    • Create "Mark as Invalid" application
    • Start report management application

Devel::Cover

  • Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎)
    • adapt Devel::Cover to handle signatures (currently loses branch coverage unless called with bad parameters)
    • get coverage of top-level statements (ie not within a sub) (enlist Aaron?)

cpancover

  • Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎)
    • containerisation
    • put queue system live
    • look into failover/redundancy/backup with metacpan
    • allow user upload of coverage data
    • management of external dependencies (system libraries etc)

Test::Needs

  • Finish additions for non-module dependencies

Travis-CI Helpers

  • Revive perl build infrastructure
  • Address open issues and pull requests
  • investigate docker

CPAN.pm

  • option to disallow installation of distros based on various criteria, first of all outdated distros (aka issue https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69694)

perldoc.pl

Dist::Zilla

CORE

  • H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎)
    • backporting Configure works in all the branches
    • completing infrastructure on dromedary - if disk permits
    • I also want to talk (again) about Release::Checklist

YAML

  • Tina Müller (‎tinita‎)
    • one or more of these:
    • Implement loading objects with YAML::PP; so far only dumping is supported.
    • Implement loading binary data with YAML::PP via the !!binary tag
    • Write a YAML::PP DateTime plugin that can load/dump timestamps
    • Other feature requests related to YAML welcome!