This page is dedicated to reporting what has been done day by day during the event.
Thursday 13th March
- 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.
- PPI review for Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
- Took a look at test.porting supporting parallel tests.
- Bugged Tim Bunce to give me github access to Memcached::libmemcached
- 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
- showed everyone where the toilets were
- discussion with TIMB about Test::Database
- Specced the interaction between PAUSE/CPAN and the cpan client of Perl 6 (called panda) with Andreas Koenig and Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz).
- Fixed issues happened when detecting dependencies during building and testing of distributions.
- Improved Build::Graph in various ways.
- Discussed multiprocessing issues in Test::Harness with Curtis Poe (Ovid).
- Fixed compilation issues on Windows in App-a2p
Friday 14th March
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Made first patches for the PAUSE service to recognise Perl 6 distributions.
- Discussions with Barbie on how cpan-testers could handle reports made by Perl 6, and how this could be represented on the various testers websites.
Saturday 15th March
- 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.
- 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.
- completed reviewing and polishing of literally 2 non-mythical man years of Tapper git history
- in a way that allows coming back to a more "early and often" release cycle
- some approved libs already published
- prepared changelog
- 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:
- Discussed with MITHALDU and HAARG about how to improve EUMM on Windows to get faster install. Started to profile the build.
- Managed to kill the screen of my laptop by dropping it in the stairs of the hotel when going to sleep. :'(
- More patches to PAUSE about Perl 6 regarding to custom upload path handling.
- Discussion with Andreas Koenig and preparation of patches about mldistwatch (the distribution indexer in PAUSE).
- Detailed discussions about build infrastructures and native calling interfaces with Jens Rehsack (Sno) and Elizabeth Mattijsen (liz)
- Discussed dynamic configuration, optional configuration and the install database with Karen Etheridge (Ether) and Graham Knop (haarg).
- Discussed generalizing DBIx::Class::Optional::Dependencies with ribasushi +1
- Write test for new version.pm code.
- Fixed a minor issue in Dist::Zilla's add command.
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Sunday 16th March
- opened the door (took about 3 hours)
- Devel::PPPort - Familiarized myself more with the workings. Added these APIs:
- SvREFCNT_dec_NN
- mg_findext
- sv_unmagicext
- 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:
- 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.
- Spent some time trying to workaround my broken laptop screen :(
- Fixed issues with bareword filehandles in v5 (Perl 5 slang in Perl6) while waiting for a time slot with Andreas Koenig.
- Patches to PAUSE got applied by Andreas Koenig and the first Perl 6 distributions where handled correctly by the paused daemon.
- Continued work on patches to PAUSE's indexer, which need further discussions with Andreas Koenig before these can be applied.
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- Worked on various parts of my next generation toolchain, the required plugin architecture in particular.
- Fixed various issues in new version.pm code.
- Updated Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MinimumPerlFast
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