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
• Fri:
  • expanded perl6 -V output with more Perl 6 related info
  • added Kernel.archname for integration with CPAN-testers
  • several discussions related to Perl 6 integration with CPAN

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)
  • Discussion about the consequences of no-dot-in-inc
  • Backport perl5 core configure commits to metaconfig and fix serious flaw + feedback upstream
  • Communicate with Debian-folk about getting System::Info in their package system (copyright issues)
  • Discuss with mohawk & arc what the implications are of "fixing" $(BASEEXT) on AIX

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
• Fri:
  • Released YAML.pm 1.23_001
    • It is now only containing YAML.pm delegating to YAML::Old::* and YAML::Any
    • https://github.com/ingydotnet/yaml-old-pm/blob/master/doc/yaml-old-transition.md#yaml-to-yamlold-transition
  • Talked about new API for YAML backends

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

andk

• Thu:
  • Worked on bug on PAUSE that affected permission system together with Peter, Graham and Neil
  • Worked on bug in cpan script regarding -x switch together with Tux
  • Encouraged charsbar to continue his idea to rewrite PAUSE as a Mojolicious server

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