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Registered attendees, please add yourselves to categories as appropriate

If you wish to be sponsored by the hackathon, add your estimated travel costs to the expenses details page, and your stay dates to the accommodation details page. You can also add your travel details (departure/arrival) to the travel details page.

Note that we have stopped accepting registration on January 31st.

Thanks!

Registered, sponsored/self-funded

Nicholas Perez (‎nperez‎)

Interested in working on just about anything.

Laurent Boivin (‎Elbeho‎)

Organization, logistics, coffee maker, that sort of things.

David Leadbeater (‎dg‎) (dgl) (self funded)

CPAN grep API
Maybe integrate work with MetaCPAN (e.g. grep a release, etc).

Vincent Pit (‎vincent‎)

Still thinking about what to do and how to do it.

Rafaël Garcia-Suarez (‎rgs‎)

cherrymaint (with Vincent ?)
getting familiar with non-core projects

Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎) (living in Paris)

Kwalitee (explore metrics), CPANTS (improve front-end)
PAUSE front-end (helping Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎))
perllocal
Module::Build::Tiny (helping Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎))
write patches for CPAN modules for which I submitted bugs

Xavier Caron (‎maspalio‎)

Wondering about what the heck I'm gonna do out there ;^)
Fallback to being a free-floating helper anyway

Pau Amma

All these little typos and pod errors that drive me nuts
Think of a way to submit bug reports and patches through CPAN so I don't have to spend 1 hour hunting for a repo or bugtracker just for a doubled or misspelled word
Fall back to wandering semi-aimlessly in search of something to do or someone who'll let me pester them with questions

H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎)

Working (with Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎)) on Test::Smoke and finally hope to nail it to the new environment
Help others with questions regarding perl5 configuration
Give, hopefully useful, feedback and remarks to all questions on the other QA projects. I might even prod them with new feature requests and end-user wishes (hello Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎) :)

Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎)

Interested to work on:

Git::CPAN::Hook (started at the QA hackathon 2011)
Test::Database
PAUSE index-related things
Act
being a free-floating helper

Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎)

CPANTS maintainance + implement some extra metrics
experiment: crowd-source perldoc translation via gettext
Act maintainance, if time permits

Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎) Sponsored by his employer (http://dyn.com)
Interested in any of these (but not limited to):

Work on CPANTS performance
Test writing for Perl core
Bug fixing for Perl Core
"Free Floating Helper"

Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (‎maddingue‎) (don't know yet if will be able to attend due to searching/changing job)

work on core Perl modules
work on some CPAN modules
work on Act (code & instances)
anything else somepony needs help for

Curtis Poe (‎Ovid‎)

Interested in working on:

Test::Harness
Updating Test:: modules to for the new Test::Builder
More debugger hacks
Beer

Andy Armstrong (‎AndyA‎)

I'll do what I'm told

Vincent Bachelier (‎geistteufel‎)

Interested in:

helping in development of perl tools
convert to dist::zilla / podweaver for old tools
improve PAUSE interface (more modern, more robust on subscription)

Elizabeth Mattijsen (‎liz‎)

work on some CPAN modules
anything else somebody needs help for

Wendy Van Dijk (‎woolfy‎)

I'll do what I'm told

Registered, partial sponsorship

Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎)
Most likely "XS4ALL Internet" will sponsor my journey and hotel...

Finishing Test::Smoke::Gateway

Registered, seeking sponsorship

brian d foy (‎brian d foy‎)

I want to work with David and Ricardo on the PAUSE indexing stuff, and complete some of my work for a PAUSE web service.

David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden)

I'm interested in working on any/all of the following things:

Patching CPAN clients to use new v2 CPAN Meta Spec categories like "test/requires", "runtime/recommended", etc.
Patching Module::Build to produce v2 CPAN Meta Spec compliant META.json files
Getting feedback and agreement on the Build.PL API spec
Devising a standard way to split CPAN index data from distribution location data, allowing CPAN clients to use custom (e.g. frozen or hybrid) indices that might reference CPAN, BackPAN, or DarkPAN distribution locations for individual distributions
Discussing CPAN Testers evolution or mentoring anyone interested in improving CPAN Testers clients
Discussing use of configuration management tools (e.g. Chef) to manage automated Perl application deployment

Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎)

I'm interested in work on any/all of the following things:

Working on PAUSE indexer (following up on work done with xdg earlier this year)
Working on a PAUSE front-end replacement in Plack
Being a free-floating helper

Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)

Designing a replacement for .packlists and perllocal.pod
Work on tests installation.
Discuss (and maybe implement) a standard for static installers.
Finish the Build.PL specification with David Golden (‎xdg‎).
Work on the various support modules of the 'modern' toolchain (Module::Build::Tiny, ExtUtils::XBuilder, etc…).

Steffen Schwigon (‎renormalist‎)

my topic: Benchmarking Perl (Benchmark::Perl::Formance)
integrate benchmark code snippets found in historic p5p discussions
integrate perlbench
revitalize existing but problematic benchmarks (eg. on regex engine plugins)
polish currently suboptimal perl-5.9.x result reporting where lots of historic speed relevant changes happened
run actual benchmarks to narrow/semibisect interesting commits
cleanup data presentation (drop "fastmode" data)
organize data backup (additional virtual host)
fix CPANTESTERS bugs in Perl::Formance
fix bugs in used sub applications (codespeed baseline drawing)

Adrian Howard (‎adrianh‎)

Finishing off the Test::Class -> subtests conversion
Helping Ricardo with a new Plack based PAUSE front end if he'll have me :-)
Like to pick brains and see if folk can come up with a decent framework for testing continuously deployed perl web apps... which may well play into Leon looking into test installation.

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎)

Update cpanminus to add a complete support of CPAN Meta spec v2, especially conflicts
Implement and promote the use of cpanfile(5) in other CPAN clients and toolchain
Implement and promote the use of carton(1)

ribasushi +1

Lay the groundwork for DBIx::Racer - a performance/capability benchmark framework for combinations of DBDs and ORMs
Being a free-floating helper
Offering inspiration through high-quality toolchain-related rants

Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎)

Improving XS Typemaps with parameterisation and additional features (started at last year's hackathon)
Helping with a new PAUSE frontend or improvements to the existing one
Improving MetaCPAN's reliability
Being a free-floating helper

Kenichi Ishigaki (‎charsbar‎)

Interested in working on:

CPANTS (kwalitee) website and its tools
DBD::SQLite
ppmminus

Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎)

Test::Harness
carton
cpanminus
MetaCPAN
Being a free-floating helper

Andreas Koenig

rrr
pause
CPAN.pm
analysis.cpantesters.org
Being a free-floating helper

Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎)

local::lib (duh)
cpanm
PAUSE
MetaCPAN
another free-floating helper

Barbie

CPAN Testers in general
improving and creating APIs to CPAN Testers data
improving the propagation of CPAN Testers databases,
furthering work on including Devel::Platform::Info into clients.

Slaven Rezić (‎srezic‎)

matrix.cpantesters.org
parallel smoking (maybe with focus on perl 5.16.0)

Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎)

I'd like to work on Devel::Cover primarily
I may bug Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎) about completing the dzil support in Devel::Cover if it's not done by then
As usual I have lots of ideas, mostly detailed in the Devel::Cover TODO list, but I think I'd like to focus on continuing to make it easier for others to contribute to the project

Michael Schwern (‎Schwern‎)

People can hit me with whiffle bats about getting Test::Builder2 done.
You can hit me with whiffle bats about whatever MakeMaker needs to do, too.
Talk with people about what they want to do with TB2.
Help people rewrite modules to use TB2.
General testing curmudgeoning.

Alan Haggai Alavi (‎alanhaggai‎)

Add unicode support to Archive::Zip
Support Zip64
Build Archive::Zip::Parser in such a way that it can be used for writing tests for Archive::Zip
Fix existing Archive::Zip bugs

Dominique Dumont (‎domi‎)

Interested in:

Improve workflow from Perl modules to distro packages, Debian and others
Can explain Debian packaging workflow and tools (just ask if you want a more formal prez)
Can explain Config::Model and how it applies to configuration files, debian packaging and other stuff
SDL perl on arm, Padre, DBIx::Class, Moose...

Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎)