calendarAll good things come to an end
The Perl QA Hackathon 2010 in Vienna is over and has been a great success. It
was fun, interesting, inspiring, intensive and tiring.
We met on Friday early evening and parted on Monday late evening, so the
hackathon was about as long as a YAPC would be, but because there were only
about thirty people and they were all in the same room, it was much easier to
talk to everyone, exchange ideas and work together.
Flights, hotel costs, lunches, dinners, drinks and snacks were all paid for by
Vienna.pm with the help of the hackathon sponsors,
123people and
Österreichischer Bibliothekenverbund (the Austrian
Library Network and Services Ltd).
Results
H.Merijn Brand (Tux) and Abe Timmerman (abeltje) created
Test::Smoke::Metabase,
a tool which sends Test::Smoke reports into the new CPANTESTERS-2.0
infrastructure.
Curtis Poe (Ovid) worked on
Task::Toolchain::Test,
it's something like a metapackage which will install the most common test
toolchain modules on new boxes.
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) fixed some tests in the testsuite of
Test::Harness, so it has now a
test coverage of 88%.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa) shipped a new version of
cpanminus. Find the full
list of all changes by following his
blog.
Michael Schwern (Schwern) worked on the
IETF draft for TAP.
Marcel Grünauer (Marcel) discussed with Andreas König about a Webservice API for PAUSE.
Through that API it should be possible to edit maintainership permissions, add
module registration metadata and delete files without having to use the PAUSE
web site. In the first phase, to see how this all works out, they arranged a
read-only access to the PAUSE data. The API so far only consists of a few minor
GET URLs and is not live yet. Have a look at
PAUSE-Web.
To talk with the API, Marcel also wrote a
PAUSE client library and worked on
App::perlzonji, a clever
alternative to perldoc. Marcel also uploaded some
pictures of the Hackathon
event.
Paul Johnson (pjcj) extended Devel::Cover
which will also work with perl 5.12. Together with Florian Ragwitz (rafl) they also
optimised Devel::Cover, so this module runs now 3 times faster.
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) worked on the Debian packaging for
Sympa 6,
a mailing list manager written in Perl. In addition to upgrading the packaging
scripts used for Sympa 5, 18 Debian bugs and 2 Sympa bugs have been fixed.
Jozef Kutej (jozef) and Emmanuel Rodriguez (potyl) created Debian packages for
SourceView2%2F%22%3EGtk2%3A%3ASourceView2%3C%2Fa%3E">SourceView2/">Gtk2::SourceView2 and
Xacobeo to libgtk2-sourceview2-perl
and libxacobeo-perl. They also created the
patchedit script
which checks and fixes the quality of the patches descriptions for the
debian-perl packages.
Thanks
Thanks to all attendees, who travelled from near and far to Vienna to spend
some of their precious free time hacking on various projects.
Thanks again to the sponsors, 123people and
OBSVG, and to all of the
Sponsors of YAPC::Europe
2007 which made our YAPC such a big success so we can fund events like this.
Thanks to Metalab for providing us with a great venue,
vast quantities of Club Mate and the incredible Metacade.
And even more thanks to the wonderful team: Peter Stoehr, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (daxim) and
Jozef Kutej (jozef). Roland Lammel, our treasurer could not attend, but he made sure
we had easy access to Vienna.pm's money.
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