- Made AIX send its smoke-reports to the database (train-work with Abe Timmerman (abeltje)
- Backported Configure-related commits from CORE to Metaconfig
- Several very useful discussions
- Fix smokers that stalled
- Merge stalled commits from metaconfig
- Analyze new open.t fails for PERLIO=stdio (with Leon Timmermans (leont))
- New probes for syscall and subsequent fixed as I broke core
- Sync whitespace work with Yves
- Update Release::Checklist to new agreements
- Investigate Test::Vars for Release::Checklist
- Close some GitHub issues
- CVE analyzer with Garu, Stigo & Salve
- released Module-Install-1.20 which removes Module::Install::DSL (and 1.21, to fix the errors I introduced in 1.20)
- fixed https://github.com/karenetheridge/misc/blob/master/install/generic/bin/pause-cleanup to not delete .readme, .meta files associated with distributions that still have indexed modules, and handle multiple releases on a single version with different distribution names
- patched for Module::Metadata to support `class` syntax: https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Module-Metadata/pull/38 -- released as Module-Metadata-1.000038
- started on a patch to Catalyst::Devel to remove use of Module::Install
- released ExtUtils-Manifest-1.74 to include more MANIFEST.SKIP patterns
- released some distributions to remove the use of Module::Install::DSL:
- File-Find-Rule-PPI-1.07
- File-Find-Rule-VCS-1.09
- CPAN-Mini-Extract-1.24
- whipped up a JSON Schema recipe for garu's cpansa (after getting him on irc!)
- reviewed and merged https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-Manifest/pull/17, which has been sitting there for far too long (and will be released tomorrow along with some anticipated changes from Paul)
- merged and released more ExtUtils::Manifest improvements, including one from mohawk that had been languishing for several years
- released Data::Visitor to remove an unneeded use of Sub::Name
- released Sub::Name to skip tests for deprecated ' separator on newer perls
- reviewed Tux's Release::Checklist for typos and accuracy (everything is still relevant!)
- released ExtUtils::Manifest again, to incorporate mohawk (Ed J)'s "in-memory" #include_default changes and to drop support for MacOS Classic
- released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Test::UnusedVars to change the test to always unconditionally use Test::Vars
- released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Run to fix some mswin32 path separator issues
- released JSON::MaybeXS to document the to_json and from_json functions
- released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PromptIfStale and Dist::Zilla::Plugin::OnlyCorePrereqs to handle DynaLoader now no longer being indexed
- released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub::Update to more gracefully handle repository permission errors
- (group discussion) achieved a new wording for toolchain perl version requirements - https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/pull/11
- started looking at using `Module::Build::Tiny` in some of my dists. Much chat with Leon Timmermans (leont) about what more features need adding to it to support more things
- (group discussion) talked about how to achieve multiple CPAN module indexes to support older perl versions - notes at https://demo.hedgedoc.org/rTx-xFuIRTqp9yKbxsY87Q
- Discussed with Chad Granum (Exodist) how to get Test2 into core
- Some minor improvements to `ExtUtils-Manifest`
- Discussed ideas of multi-variable/lexical `map` and `grep` with Ricardo Signes (rjbs) and Graham Knop (haarg)
- Accepted many feature addition patches from Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari) onto `Commandable`; released a new version to CPAN
- (group discussion) whether core perl should provide a "better" local::lib - notes at https://demo.hedgedoc.org/h-mYLb-1RP24PP2zVEfRrQ#
Julien Fiegehenn (simbabque)
- participated in discussions about MetaCPAN UI improvements
- released WWW-Mechanize-2.17. Mechanize is now completely perltidied and runs tidyall tests on PRs
- LWP::UserAgent:
- worked on existing PR 420 to get it into mergeable state
- added tests to existing PR 73 and found and fixed a connection cache related bug in LWP with PR 424
- rebased and fixed existing PR 62
- fixed bug 421 relating to no_proxy
- released libwww-perl-6.69
- rebased and fixed [https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/91|existing PR 91) with help of the original contributor
- POD fixes in PR 428
- released libwww-perl-6.70
- URI:
- fixed existing PR 31 relating to credentials where there is no password which closed issue 13
- fixed existing PR 28 to improve documentation about host() and ihost()
- merged PR 49
- released URI-5.18
- fixed dependant testing workflow with Olaf Alders (oalders)
- fixed existing PR 65 via PR 128, which will also close PR 63 and PR 64 as they are alternate implementation suggestions for the same thing
- released URI-5.19
- released CPAN-2.35 with the commit by Stig Palmquist that sets verify_SSL=>1 for HTTP::Tiny
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (ilmari)
- Submitted a PR for MetaCPAN to use CommonMark instead of MultiMarkdown, fixing fenced code block rendering.
- Added a help command to App::ModuleBuildTiny
- Commandable option parsing improvements
- (beta) releases (1.79_09, 1.79_10) of Test::Smoke
- bugfix to get compiler messages from Core Smoke Reports back in the database Perl5-CoreSmokeDB-API
- handled/closed some issues in the github issue-tracker
- Released Devel::Cover 1.39 and 1.40
- Got Devel::Cover working correctly ready for Perl's 5.38 release
- Raised Devel::Cover minimum version to 5.12
- Merged 10 PRs (that was all of them)
- Worked on many open tickets (but there are still many left)
- Updated cpancover infrastructure
- blog post
- Presented new EU upcoming legislation (NIS2 & CRA) that is very likely to affect Perl/CPAN authors and the toolchain community. Video recording to be published. Had several conversations related to this
- CPAN::Audit test examples
- Event photography
- Recorded a conversation with Olaf Alders (oalders) about Perl communities
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