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Perl Toolchain Summit 2017

May 11-14, 2017 in Lyon

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Perl Toolchain Summit 2017

May 11-14, 2017
in Lyon, France

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May 11-14, 2017
in Lyon, France

Results

Mithaldu

  • Thu:
    • provided feedback for haarg on speeding up CPAN installs on Windows
    • integrated many PPI fixes in preparation for a release

lizmat

  • Thu:
    • discussed format for providing Perl 6 module test results to cpan-testers
    • discussed various recommendation manager issues
    • brainstormed about a new distribution format
    • finished refactoring Baggy internals

Tux

  • Thu:
    • Fix two problems in cpan client that caused a slowdown of a factor 100 when a module / distribution name contains a typo (with Andreas)
    • Explain Sawyer correct use of CSV options
    • Help Abe with getting Test::Smoke using git as intended
    • Fix readdir_r usage in perl5 core, as it is deprecated since glibc-2.24
    • Hand out new HP-UX and AIX account to mohawn for analysing bugs in ExtUtils::MakeMaker on AIX
    • Implement Iterator as input on Text::CSV for perl6
  • Fri:
    • Build and test perl-5.26.0-RC1 (4 times) and report issues
    • Get more internal information out of Darwin into archname (release a new System::Info)

Ingy, Tinita

  • Thu:
    • Copied current YAML.pm code to YAML::Old and released YAML::Old 1.23 https://metacpan.org/release/YAML-Old
    • Started to make YAML.pm only delegate to YAML::Old

arc

  • Thu:
    • Split Ref::Util into PP/XS dists, with assistance from Sawyer++ ether++ haarg++
    • Answered a couple of Perl 5 questions
    • Investigated Catalyst deps under Travis builds

pjcj

  • Merged a number of pull requests
  • Closed a number of tickets
  • Released Devel::Cover 1.25
  • Had some interesting discussions about thorny Devel::Cover problems
  • Found out how to type a tilde on a Swiss German Mac keyboard (Alt-N Space)

garu, preaction

  • Thu:
    • defined a new format for CPAN Testers' reports API that's simpler, forward compatible and that allows us to submit reports for Perl 6 distributions as well as Perl 5 (or any other language, for that matter)
    • started the backend port to support the new format and convert data from the old database to the new one

neilb

  • triage of PAUSE hit-list with Andreas, to agree priorities for the summit
  • (re)learned how to write PAUSE tests
  • reproduced a security issue in PAUSE
  • raise some tickets on EUMM with ideas that came out of digging in dist metadata
  • discussion on CPAN::DistnameInfo and tarball naming edge-cases with Todd, Mickey, Karen, and Sawyer

xsawyerx

  • Released Perl 5.26.0-RC1
  • Released Ref::Util::XS
  • Worked on Ref::Util (and Ref::Util::PP) with arc, ether, and haarg
  • Wrote blog post about all of this (not yet published)
  • Created instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/perltoolchainsummit/
  • Said discussion neilb mentioned

atoomic

  • Worked on a prototype for grep.metacpan.org frontend, api, git repo: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-grep-front-end

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Results

Mithaldu

  • Thu:
    • provided feedback for haarg on speeding up CPAN installs on Windows
    • integrated many PPI fixes in preparation for a release

lizmat

  • Thu:
    • discussed format for providing Perl 6 module test results to cpan-testers
    • discussed various recommendation manager issues
    • brainstormed about a new distribution format
    • finished refactoring Baggy internals

Tux

  • Thu:
    • Fix two problems in cpan client that caused a slowdown of a factor 100 when a module / distribution name contains a typo (with Andreas)
    • Explain Sawyer correct use of CSV options
    • Help Abe with getting Test::Smoke using git as intended
    • Fix readdir_r usage in perl5 core, as it is deprecated since glibc-2.24
    • Hand out new HP-UX and AIX account to mohawn for analysing bugs in ExtUtils::MakeMaker on AIX
    • Implement Iterator as input on Text::CSV for perl6
  • Fri:
    • Build and test perl-5.26.0-RC1 (4 times) and report issues
    • Get more internal information out of Darwin into archname (release a new System::Info)

Ingy, Tinita

  • Thu:
    • Copied current YAML.pm code to YAML::Old and released YAML::Old 1.23 https://metacpan.org/release/YAML-Old
    • Started to make YAML.pm only delegate to YAML::Old

arc

  • Thu:
    • Split Ref::Util into PP/XS dists, with assistance from Sawyer++ ether++ haarg++
    • Answered a couple of Perl 5 questions
    • Investigated Catalyst deps under Travis builds

pjcj

  • Merged a number of pull requests
  • Closed a number of tickets
  • Released Devel::Cover 1.25
  • Had some interesting discussions about thorny Devel::Cover problems
  • Found out how to type a tilde on a Swiss German Mac keyboard (Alt-N Space)

garu, preaction

  • Thu:
    • defined a new format for CPAN Testers' reports API that's simpler, forward compatible and that allows us to submit reports for Perl 6 distributions as well as Perl 5 (or any other language, for that matter)
    • started the backend port to support the new format and convert data from the old database to the new one

neilb

  • triage of PAUSE hit-list with Andreas, to agree priorities for the summit
  • (re)learned how to write PAUSE tests
  • reproduced a security issue in PAUSE
  • raise some tickets on EUMM with ideas that came out of digging in dist metadata
  • discussion on CPAN::DistnameInfo and tarball naming edge-cases with Todd, Mickey, Karen, and Sawyer

xsawyerx

  • Released Perl 5.26.0-RC1
  • Released Ref::Util::XS
  • Worked on Ref::Util (and Ref::Util::PP) with arc, ether, and haarg
  • Wrote blog post about all of this (not yet published)
  • Created instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/perltoolchainsummit/
  • Said discussion neilb mentioned

atoomic

  • Worked on a prototype for grep.metacpan.org frontend, api, git repo: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-grep-front-end

version 12 saved on 12/05/17 13:36 by atoomic

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