Draft projects page

Note: This page is a compilation from what attendees said they were interested in working on, loosely organized by theme, with lead/contributor/description somewhat arbitrary. As such, you should probably look for your name in it (might be in several places) and correct as appropriate. --Pau Amma

Onsite logistics/gofering

Description: Organization, logistics, coffee maker, that sort of things.
Lead: Laurent Boivin (‎Elbeho‎)
Contributor: Curtis Poe (‎Ovid‎): Beer
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): Tourist information. Ask me if you need help for your side trips.

CPAN, MetaCPAN, and other *PANs

CPANTS

Description: improve front-end & metrics
Lead: Kenichi Ishigaki (‎charsbar‎) Interested in working on CPANTS (kwalitee) website and its tools
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): learn how the thing works, implement more Kwalitee metrics
Contributor: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎): maintenance, implement some extra metrics
Contributor: Andreas Koenig: analysis.cpantesters.org
Contributor: Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎): performance

MetaCPAN

Description: Improving the reliability of the indexer. There are many open issues for both the API and the search site. We should probably concentrate on the bugs which are hampering the user experience. eg "Can't find module X", "This module was skipped by the indexer", etc. There are also likely some smaller issues on the search site which could be easily fixed with just a high level overview of how the site works.
Lead: Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎): MetaCPAN
Contributor: Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎)
Contributor: Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎)
Contributor: Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎): MetaCPAN
Contributor: Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎)

CPAN grep API

Description: Maybe integrate work with MetaCPAN (e.g. grep a release, etc).
Lead: David Leadbeater (‎dg‎) (dgl)

CPAN bugreport workflow

Description: 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
Lead: Pau Amma
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎). I have some ideas, and started to write some code a few years ago. I have some vaporware here: https://github.com/dolmen/p5-Patch-Zilla/

CPAN index data

Description: 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
Lead: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden)

CPAN Testers and CPAN Testers clients

Contributor: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden): Description: Discussing CPAN Testers evolution or mentoring anyone interested in improving CPAN Testers clients
Contributor: 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.
Contributor: Slaven Rezić (‎srezic‎): matrix.cpantesters.org

Installing CPAN modules ("toolchain")

Support for CPAN Meta Spec v2

Lead: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden): 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
Contributor: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎): Update cpanminus to add a complete support of CPAN Meta spec v2, especially conflicts

Misc CPAN client stuff

Contributor: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎): Implement and promote the use of cpanfile(5) in other CPAN clients
Contributor: Kenichi Ishigaki (‎charsbar‎): ppmminus
Contributor: Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎): cpanminus
Contributor: Andreas Koenig: CPAN.pm
Contributor: Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎): cpanm
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): improve $PATH consistency with @INC when testing distribution. Maybe build some CPAN dists to show the problems.

Build.PL

Lead: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden): Getting feedback and agreement on the Build.PL API spec
Contributor: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎) $PATH consistency with @INC

.packlists and perllocal.pod replacement

Lead: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): I have a staging ExtUtils::PerlLocal on GitHub

Packaging for OS distributions

Description: Improve workflow from Perl modules to distro packages, Debian and others
Lead: Dominique Dumont (‎domi‎): 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.

Carton

Lead: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎): Implement and promote the use of carton(1)
Contributor: Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎): carton

Toolchain support modules

Description: various support modules of the 'modern' toolchain (Module::Build::Tiny, ExtUtils::XBuilder, etc…).
Lead: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)'''
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): Module::Build::Tiny (helping Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎))
Contributor: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎): Implement and promote the use of cpanfile(5) in other CPAN clients and toolchain
Contributor: Michael Schwern (‎Schwern‎): You can hit me with whiffle bats about whatever MakeMaker needs to do, too.

Git::CPAN::Hook

Description: started at the QA hackathon 2011
Lead: Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎)

PAUSE

Indexer-related things

Description: following up on work done with David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden) earlier this year
Lead: Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎)
Contributor: Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎)
Contributor: brian d foy (‎brian d foy‎)

PAUSE frontend

Description: PAUSE front-end replacement in Plack
Lead: Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎)
Contributor: Adrian Howard (‎adrianh‎)
Contributor: Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎): Helping with a new PAUSE frontend or improvements to the existing one

Interface improvements

Description: more modern, more robust on subscription
Lead: Vincent Bachelier (‎geistteufel‎)
Contributor: brian d foy (‎brian d foy‎): complete some of my work for a PAUSE web service.

Other/unspecified

Contributor: Andreas Koenig: pause
Contributor: Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎): PAUSE
Contributor: Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎): PAUSE

cherrymaint

Description: https://github.com/rgs/cherrymaint
Lead: Rafaël Garcia-Suarez (‎rgs‎)
Possible contributors: Vincent Pit (‎vincent‎)?

General work on modules and tools

Perl core modules

Contributor: Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎)
Contributor: Pau Amma: All these little typos and pod errors that drive me nuts
Contributor: Andreas Koenig: rrr
Contributor: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (‎maddingue‎)
Contributor: Curtis Poe (‎Ovid‎): More debugger hacks
Contributor: Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎): Improving XS Typemaps with parameterisation and additional features (started at last year's hackathon)
Contributor: Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎): local::lib (duh)

Devel::Cover

Description: 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
Lead: Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎)
Contributor: Vincent Pit (‎vincent‎): I have a Devel::Cover-related idea but I am still thinking about its feasability.
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): I want to fix some issues in Dist::Zilla::App::Command::cover: the build is currently broken due to dependency on MARCEL's unmaintained PluginBundle, and the module should lazy load its dependencies.

Archive::Zip

Description: 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
Lead: Alan Haggai Alavi (‎alanhaggai‎)

Acme::MetaSyntactic

Lead: Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎)
Finish up Test::MetaSyntactic
Release Acme::MetaSyntactic 1.00 and the theme packs.
Update Bundle::MetaSyntactic

Other CPAN modules

Contributor: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (‎maddingue‎): work on some CPAN modules
Contributor: Elizabeth Mattijsen (‎liz‎): work on some CPAN modules
Contributor: ribasushi +1: Lay the groundwork for DBIx::Racer - a performance/capability benchmark framework for combinations of DBDs and ORMs
Contributor: Kenichi Ishigaki (‎charsbar‎): DBD::SQLite
Contributor: Dominique Dumont (‎domi‎): SDL perl on arm, Padre, DBIx::Class, Moose...

Tools

Contributor: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden): Discussing use of configuration management tools (e.g. Chef) to manage automated Perl application deployment
Contributor: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎): Discuss (and maybe implement) a standard for static installers.
Contributor: Steffen Schwigon (‎renormalist‎): Benchmarking Perl

Conversion to dist::zilla / podweaver

Description: convert to dist::zilla / podweaver for old tools
Lead: Vincent Bachelier (‎geistteufel‎)

Tests, test harnesses, and test tools

Test::Smoke and Test::Smoke::Gateway

Lead: Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎): Finishing Test::Smoke::Gateway
Contributor: H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎): Working (with Abe Timmerman (‎abeltje‎)) on Test::Smoke and finally hope to nail it to the new environment
Contributor: Slaven Rezić (‎srezic‎): parallel smoking (maybe with focus on perl 5.16.0)

Tests installer

Lead: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎): Work on tests installation.

Testing of continuous-deployment perl apps

Description: 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.
Lead: Adrian Howard (‎adrianh‎)

Test::Class -> subtests conversion

Lead: Adrian Howard (‎adrianh‎): Finishing off the Test::Class -> subtests conversion

Test::Builder2

Description: People can hit me with whiffle bats about getting Test::Builder2 done. Talk with people about what they want to do with TB2. Help people rewrite modules to use TB2.
LeadMichael Schwern (‎Schwern‎)
Contributor: Curtis Poe (‎Ovid‎): Updating Test:: modules to for the new Test::Builder

Documentation

crowdsourced perldoc translation

Description: experiment: crowd-source perldoc translation via gettext
Lead: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎)

Act

Lead: Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎)
Contributor: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎): Act maintenance, if time permits
Contributor: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (‎maddingue‎): code & instances

Advice, answering questions, feedback, suggestions

perl5 configuration

Description: 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) :)
Lead: H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎)

Toolchain

Description: Offering inspiration through high-quality toolchain-related rants
Lead: ribasushi +1

Testing

Description: General testing curmudgeoning.
Lead: Michael Schwern (‎Schwern‎)

Win32 issues

Description: helping solving Win32 issues
Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎) may help about some basic portability issues (not involving XS)

Talent pool (free-floating helpers)

Contributor: Nicholas Perez (‎nperez‎): Interested in working on just about anything.
Contributor: Rafaël Garcia-Suarez (‎rgs‎): getting familiar with non-core projects. Separate perl core test suite from the perl being built.
Contributor: Xavier Caron (‎maspalio‎): Wondering about what the heck I'm gonna do out there ;^)
Contributor: Pau Amma: Fall back to wandering semi-aimlessly in search of something to do or someone who'll let me pester them with questions
Contributor: Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎): being a free-floating helper
Contributor: Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎): "Free Floating Helper"
Contributor: Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (‎maddingue‎): anything else somepony needs help for
Contributor: Andy Armstrong (‎AndyA‎): I'll do what I'm told
Contributor: Elizabeth Mattijsen (‎liz‎): anything else somebody needs help for
Contributor: Wendy Van Dijk (‎woolfy‎): I'll do what I'm told
Contributor: Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎): Being a free-floating helper
Contributor: ribasushi +1: Being a free-floating helper
Contributor: Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎): Being a free-floating helper
Contributor: Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎): Being a free-floating helper
Contributor: Andreas Koenig: Being a free-floating helper
Contributor: Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎): another free-floating helper
Contributor: Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎): Being a free-floating helperper
Contributor: Vincent Bachelier (‎geistteufel‎): helping in development of perl tools