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Onsite logistics/gofering

Description: Organization, logistics, coffee maker, that sort of things.
Lead: Laurent Boivin (‎Elbeho‎)
Contributor: Curtis Poe (‎Ovid‎): Beer

CPAN, MetaCPAN, and other *PANs

CPAN grep API

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

CPANTS enhancements

Description: improve front-end
Lead: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎)
Contributor: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎): implement some extra metrics

CPANTS maintenance

Lead: Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (‎daxim‎)

CPANTS performance

Lead: Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎)

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

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 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

Git::CPAN::Hook

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

CPAN Testers and CPAN Testers clients

Description: Discussing CPAN Testers evolution or mentoring anyone interested in improving CPAN Testers clients
Lead: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden)

Improving MetaCPAN's reliability

Lead: Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎)
Contributor: Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎)

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

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: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎)
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.
Contributor: Florian Ragwitz (‎rafl‎): Helping with a new PAUSE frontend or improvements to the existing one

cherrymaint

Lead: Rafaël Garcia-Suarez (‎rgs‎)
Possible contributors: Vincent Pit (‎vincent‎)?

Kwalitee

Description: explore metrics
Lead: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎)
Contributor: Kenichi Ishigaki (‎charsbar‎) Interested in working on CPANTS (kwalitee) website and its tools

perllocal

Lead: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎)

General work on modules and tools

perl core modules

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)

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

Build.PL

Lead: David Golden (‎xdg‎) (dagolden): Getting feedback and agreement on the Build.PL API spec
Contributor: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)

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

Tools

Contributor: Vincent Bachelier (‎geistteufel‎): helping in development of perl 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
Contributor: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎): Implement and promote the use of carton(1)
Contributor: Michael Peters (‎mpeters‎): carton

Conversion to dist::zilla / podweaver

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

Bug fixing

perl core

Lead: Matthew Horsfall (‎alh‎)

CPAN modules

Contributor: Olivier Mengué (‎dolmen‎): write patches for CPAN modules for which I submitted bugs
Contributor: Pau Amma: All these little typos and pod errors that drive me nuts

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

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

Documentation

crowdsourced perldoc translation

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

.packlists and perllocal.pod replacement

Lead: Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎)

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

Talent pool (free-floating helpers)

Contributor: Nicholas Perez (‎nperez‎): Interested in working on just about anything.
Contributor: Vincent Pit (‎vincent‎): Still thinking about what to do and how to do it.
Contributor: Rafaël Garcia-Suarez (‎rgs‎): getting familiar with non-core projects
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: Andy Armstrong (‎AndyA‎): I'll do what I'm told
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: 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