PTS 2023 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.

Group discussions ("consensus documents")

should we bump the guaranteed minimum supported version from 5.8.1 - perhaps to 5.16 or 5.20?
let's start phasing out PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC
how do we make distroprefs better?
thinking ahead to perl7: can we make the expectations for perl7 distributions much more rigid and stop allowing legacy behaviours?
finish hammering out an initial API design for a `meta::` API -- Paul Evans (‎LeoNerd‎)

Test::Smoke (Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎))

Finish big rewrite and release it.

CoreSmokeDB (Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎))

We need to find a new home for this project.

Devel::Cover (Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎))

Get everything working with 5.38
Make a plan to move away from BigV/Bytemark, which is being shut down

I'm currently running on a (virtual) server with 16 CPUs (2.2 MHz), 64G RAM and 120G disk. The CPUs and RAM are nice but I could manage with a little less. The disk is too small really and would ideally be 500G or more.

Implement as much of that plan as possible
Containerise everything to simplify the move
Make changes necessary for PERL_RC_STACK
Finish up the core changes to allow coverage of top-level module statements
Finish up queue system
Manage PRs and bug reports

PAUSE installer (Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎) & Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎))

Make it possible to start from a stock Linux (Debian?) box and spin up a running PAUSE
this, in furtherance of rebuilding the real PAUSE onto a new machine

YAML (Tina Müller (‎tinita‎))

Try packaging libfyaml as a perl XS binding. It is a modern alternative to libyaml, supporting YAML 1.2 passing every test case
Add experimental perl booleans to YAML::XS

Various (Ingy döt Net (‎ingy‎))

A system for CPAN authors to be able to ssh into smokers where their tests failed and debug them.
An alternative packaging system for Raku based on the BPAN system I've created for Bash.
Improvements for Devel::hdb - an amazing web based Perl debugger that needs some love.
Helping Tina on YAML things.
Promoting TPRC/NA 2023 Toronto which I'm helping to organize this year.

Various (H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎))

Whitespace issues CORE::Configure inconsistent with generated file (request from Yves)
Release::Checklist check against consensus (PR's welcome!)
Get Meta back in sync again
Taint support / taint disabled
Whatever is requested