This page is dedicated to reporting what has been done day by day during the event.
Thursday 13th March
Tim Bunce:
- Detailed discussions with Jens Rehsack (Sno) about next steps for DBI::Test.
- Implemented a significant restructuring of test generation logic and plugins.
- Detailed discussions with Philippe Bruhat (BooK) about next steps for Test::Database to better fit the needs of DBI::Test.
- Discussions with ribasushi +1 about how NYTProf does gathers subroutine call graph information with a view to improving Devel::Cover analysis.
- Was interviewed (along with ribasushi +1) by Salve J. Nilsen (sjn).
- Granted Matthew Horsfall (alh) commit access to Memcached::libmemcached repo.
Matthew Horsfall (alh):
- Added parallel testing support to p5's Makefile for valgrind testing (test.valgrind)
- Add deparse testing support to p5's Makefile for smoking deparse (test.deparse)
- Played around with a Configure -i flag (ignore/rm Policy.sh and config.sh)
- Talked to H.Merijn Brand (Tux) about ./Configure with cached data. More is needed here, perhaps for now though separate out the functionality to another shell/Perl script so it can be improved in the future without touching Configure. Might play with this later.
- Added patch to update doc or fix code for hv_iterinit
- Fixed Devel::Cover to work with 5.20 and later 5.19.Xs.
- Discussions with Paul Johnson (pjcj) led me to the hopefully "right" way to fix this.
- PPI review for Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
- Took a look at test.porting supporting parallel tests.
- It already does!
- Bugged Tim Bunce to give me github access to Memcached::libmemcached
Steffen Schwigon (renormalist):
- opensource released some Tapper libs
- TAP::DOM release 0.11
- assume TAP version 13 by default
- generate TAP from TAP::DOM
- Data::DPath release 0.50
- small optimization
Philippe Bruhat (BooK):
- showed everyone where the toilets were
- discussion with TIMB about Test::Database
Friday 14th March
Tim Bunce:
- More DBI::Test code refinements and design discussions with Jens Rehsack (Sno) and ribasushi +1, especially around the test variant generator.
- About ready to start working on extracting and releasing Data::Tumbler and Test::WriteVariants as new distributions on CPAN.
- Discussed the problems of packagers (eg rpm creators) determining dependencies for compiled perl extension.
- Proposed an extension to the META spec as an appropriate way to capture the required information and build tooling around it.
Matthew Horsfall (alh)
- Memcached::libmemcached
- Updated META_MERGE a bit (change bugtracker, include repo url)
- Check pending tickets for work / clean up bug queue. Most seem stalled on more user input
- Release ! (Includes fixes for floop-parallel-all)
- bisected/reported "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" with here doc in regexop
- File bug about B::Deparse not handling newlines in (?{...}) regex constructs
Olivier Mengué (dolmen)
- Arriving late...
- Digged into Module::CPANTS::Analyse and Module::CPANTS::SiteKwalitee. I discussed with charsbar and he gave me tips to continue my quests of reporting tickets on distributions that bundle MYMETA.*: I was using grep.cpan.me so far, I will now use http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/kwalitee/no_mymeta_files
- In the evening, followed an interesting discussion about how to improve automated packaging by adding metadata to META.json. Jen, Andreas, Tim Bunce have planned to further discuss that tomorrow.
Philippe Bruhat (BooK):
- was interviewed with NEILB by SJN about gamification of CPAN
- did some work on Test::Database
- talked with NEILB about our gamification of CPAN project
Saturday 15th March
Tim Bunce:
- Released Data::Tumbler and Test::WriteVariants to CPAN.
- Contributed to the design discussions around extending the META spec for packagers.
- Updated the DBI::Test prototype to use the new Test::WriteVariants module.
Matthew Horsfall (alh):
- Update test.valgrind patch to remove previous output otherwise it would interfere
- Noticed valgrind patches abandon work done by previous work of others. Need to reconsider/rewrite.
- Work on getting a base testing setup for Devel::PPPort work. Lots of hacking/fighting with various
tools
- Spoke with Paul Johnson (pjcj) about possible speed improvements to Devel::Cover. Will look into later.
Steffen Schwigon (renormalist):
- completed reviewing and polishing of literally 2 non-mythical man years of Tapper git history
Olivier Mengué (dolmen)
- Investigated the issue of `$!` https://github.com/dolmen/p5-strerror-Unicode:
- Checked how `setlocale()` and `strerror()` work on Windows to verify if the issue applies here: it doesn't. Note that `setlocale()` works quite differently from Unix. For example, it doesn't use environment variables (LC_*) at all.
- Got help from Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue) who found that the issue is at least partially fixed (only for UTF-8 locales) in blead
- Persued in locales world on Windows to fix `use open qw< :locale :std >;` on that platform. Patch for encoding::_get_locale_encoding() in progress
- Followed discussions:
- META spec brainstorming for external dependencies
- META spec about x_break, conflicts, optional features with user:dagolden, Karen Etheridge (Ether), Leon Timmermans (leont)
- Managed to kill the screen of my laptop by dropping it in the stairs when going to sleep. :'(
Philippe Bruhat (BooK):
- made a new release for Acme::CPANAuthors::Booking
- did a pair programming session with NEILB on our CPAN gamification project, and produced some output
- opened issues for CPAN::ReleaseHistory
Sunday 16th March
Steffen Schwigon (renormalist):
- App::DPath release
- input type 'tap' assumes TAP version 13 by default
- TAP::DOM::Waivers release
- patch TAP via TAP::DOM and Data::DPath
- RT cleanup: Class::MethodMaker, Tapper-*, pod-mode
Philippe Bruhat (BooK):
- opened the door (took about 3 hours)
Tim Bunce:
- More work on Data::Tumbler, Test::WriteVariants, and DBI::Test.
- Major review of the above with Jens Rehsack (Sno), ribasushi +1 and H.Merijn Brand (Tux).
- Created PR with fix to YAML::Tiny from H.Merijn Brand (Tux).
- Transferred Data::Tumbler and Test::WriteVariants to github perl5-utils organization.
- Even more work and more discussions on the above.
Matthew Horsfall (alh):
- Devel::PPPort - Familiarized myself more with the workings. Added these APIs:
- SvREFCNT_dec_NN
- mg_findext
- sv_unmagicext
Olivier Mengué (dolmen):
- Continued my work on encoding::_get_locale_encoding for Win32. Patch in progress is in my Win32-locale-encoding branch on Github
- Installed distributions produced by my peers, to ensure they get CPAN Testers reports:
- Devel::Cover: fine
- ExtUtils::MakeMaker on Win32: RT#98889 Warning with dmake
- and more
- Promoted MetaCPAN to get all remaining QA hackers to have their Github accounts listed on their MetaCPAN profile page (this can help contributors to find your repos):
- Dist::Zilla:
- Participated to discussion about what could trigger Dist::Zilla 6.0
- I waved that the ExtraTests plugin should be deprecated.
- Followed profiling of a Dist::Zilla build with Devel::NYTProf and the analysis of the flame graph it produced
- PPI is an area that should be improved.
- PPI is often used to separate POD from code. Let's see if we can avoid using PPI for that case.
- Participated to discussion about what could trigger Dist::Zilla 6.0
- Spent some time trying to workaround my broken laptop screen :(
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