Results

Mithaldu

• Thu:
  • provided feedback for haarg on speeding up CPAN installs on Windows
  • integrated many PPI fixes in preparation for a release
• Fri:
  • prepared a near final set of commits for the next PPI release
  • identified downstream problems caused by new commits
  • helped abeltje with Test-Smoke on windows
  • collaborated with alh on a tool to smoke reverse dependencies of a specific module
• Sat:
  • decided on final set of commits for next PPI release
  • fixed a bug highlighted by downstream dependencies
  • searched for more downstream incompatibilities with alh and extended the new dep smoking tool
• Sun:
  • released PPI 1.222

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
• Sat:
  • Evaluate perl.org and feedback to Barbara
  • Discussion on CPAN indexing
  • Release process of perl6 modules to CPAN (Release the perl6 version of Text::CSV)
  • Discussion on CPAN quality
  • Merge metaconfig/dist improvement from upstream to perl realm
  • Merge a solution discussed with Paul for coverage of *optional* modules on cpancover. Alter Spreadsheet::Read to test that and release
  • Discuss kwalitee metrics with ether
• Sun:
  • Devel::PPPort discussion (very!!! useful)
  • Talk mohawk through last set of AIX problems
  • More System::Info work
  • Merge Test::Smoke tickets to 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
• 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
• Sat:
  • Talked about new Loader API
  • Got a working Loader in YAML.pm (not released, only on github so far)
    • Usage (for now): use YAML 'yaml'; yaml()->load($yaml)
    • Using:
      • YAML::API (YAML distribution)
      • YAML::PP::Parser (YAML-PP)
      • YAML::Perl::Loader (formerly YAML::PP::Loader) (YAML-Perl)
  • Started to write a YAML::Perl::Dumper with Inline::C and libyaml
    • might write a Loader too
  • Talked to tony++ about the idea to write a Perl 6 libyaml loader
    • And then he just wrote it

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

• Thu:
  • 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)

• Fri:
  • Looked at problems associated with programs changing their environment whilst running under Devel::Cover
  • Discussed integration of cpancover into metacpan with Ranguard and Olaf
  • Improved and documented setup of a cpancover server
  • Installed local metacpan environment using automation provided by Lee and Leo
  • Fix or otherwise dealt with a number of tickets
  • Failed to work out how to consistently copy and paste text in iTerm2, tmux and neovim

• Sat:
  • Set the $EXTENDED_TESTING environment variable in cpancover
  • Documented further the cpancover environment
  • Worked on making the cpancover.com more of a proper production server
  • Wondered why Europe doesn't seem ready for Romanian yodel rap

garu, preaction, jberger

• 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
• Fri:
  • continued CPAN Testers backend work to convert old format submissions to the new format
  • submitted first (new format) reports to the live endpoint, in both Perl 5 and Perl 6
  • worked with ugexe++ on a plugin for zef (perl6's distribution installer) that submits reports to CPAN Testers
  • worked with lizmat++, nine++, tadzik++, tony++ on requirements for Perl 6 reports
  • worked with skaji++ on what would be the most interesting API for cpanm to better support next generation test report submissions
  • worked with tux++, haarg++, leont++ on archname issues regarding OS X (and general archname, flat namespace issues)
  • finished a Test2 hook prototype to provide a LOT more information on the reports, including structured data for each executed test - which will allow fine-grained report analysis
• Sat:
  • continued work on porting new reports back to the old metabase format for backwards compatibilities and to make new reports part of the current toolchain
  • made some semantic changes to the report format before going live
  • began porting client code to the new format
  • reviewed CPAN::Testers::Common::Client to include extra information on reports
  • more updates with ugexe++ and lizmat++ to better integrate Zef::Reporter into Zef

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 (on "Blogs" in the wiki)
• Created instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/perltoolchainsummit/
• Discussion on CPAN::DistnameInfo, CPAN indexing, CPAN Distribution Qaulity

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
• Fri:
  • Received and applied refactoring pull request from Ed Mohawk
  • Setup smokers for 5.26.0-RC1
  • continuing triaging PAUSE stuff
• Sat:
  • deployed the security fixes on live pause
  • accepted more pull requests from Peter for PAUSE testing harness
  • participated in group discussion "Potential new constraints" about going forward with stricter requirements on cpan uploads: pros and cons; defining our positions
  • helping perl6 module upload mechanism with code for the PAUSE daemon to discover perl6 tarballs that have not been uploaded into a Perl6/ directory (together with nine)
  • participated in the group discussion "What happened to DBIC" about governance model, permissions structure
• Sun:
  • discussed another issue with Dot in INC with Slaven, Aristotle, Leon, and Chris
  • discussed PAUSE mini-issues with charsbar

Ranguard

• Thu:
  • Launched new design for perl.org (babs did all the work)
  • Discussed and setup env for grep.metacpan.org with toddr and atoomic
  • Got Pete to start updating metacpan's vm
  • Helped Haarg test and deploy a shim so `cpanminus` clients now use new metacpan api (even though they hit the old API), done using fastly user agent detection and a new site just for this back compat that haarg has written.
  • Discussion on metacpan v0 depreciation with haarg
  • Start of discussion on improving search
• Friday:
  • Discussed cpancover infrastructure with pjcj and metacpan is going to at least take a backup of the reports, but may do other things later.
  • Got Lee to help setup the metacpan VM fully, I also downloaded supporting files to usb so can setup more people quickly
  • Discussed cpanratings with several people - Lee to work on something tomorrow
  • Installed metacpan VM on pjcj, abeltje and start of bab's laptops
  • Refactored metacpan search to clarify exactly what is going on
  • Started on refactoring mc search to use new query (which will make improving the results easier... next couple of days project)
  • Clean up of a few puppet bits for dev boxes
  • Helped deploy various bits on metacpan
  • Discussions about Swagger interface for some metacpan end points
• Saturday:
  • Lots of time on the metacpan search code refactor
  • Setting up grep.metacpan.org sysadmin stuff
  • Initial review of cpancover backup stuff with pjcj
• Sunday
  • Got a pull request in for the search refactor
  • Discussed Meta::Hack

Nine

• Thu:
  • Research about external dependencies and build systems
  • Started writing a META2SPEC script for Perl 6 distributions
• Fri:
  • Discussion about external dependencies and build systems with ugexe and tony-o
  • Establishment of an attack plan
  • Finished META2SPEC script
  • Sent pull requests for all distributions with missing or wrong source-url in the META6.json
  • Started writing Distribution::Builder::MakeFromJSON
  • Added builder support to install-dist.pl bundled with rakudo
  • Converted the first of 47 Build.pm using dists to Distribution::Builder::MakeFromJSON

Ether

• Thu:
  • released B::Hooks::OP::Check (x2) (. in @INC fix)
  • released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GitHub (undef warning)
  • sent https://github.com/p5pclub/ref-util/pull/37 (dzil improvements)
  • sent https://github.com/p5pclub/ref-util-xs/pull/1 (dynamic prereq)
  • released Test::Kwalitee (handling of *_TESTING environment variables)
  • acquired comaint on, and released, Mac::SystemDirectory (x3) (. in @INC fix)
  • released Context::Preserve (. in @INC fix)

• Fri:
  • discussion re distribution name, uniqueness, versions etc (Todd, Mickey, Andreas, Graham)
  • shipped new distribution Dist::Zilla::Plugin::EnsureLatestPerl
  • released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::EnsureLatestPerl (environment variable override)
  • filed https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121629 (new kwalitee metric)
  • sent https://github.com/ilmari/multidimensional/pull/3 (configure-require prereqs)
  • no . in @INC meeting/discussion
  • mail sent to ADAMK requesting comaint of his stuff
  • fixed https://github.com/p5pclub/ref-util/issues/39 (Makefile bug)
  • sent https://github.com/rjbs/Dist-Zilla/pull/591 (placement of distmeta test)
  • relesed Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git::Contributors, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Git (bad yaml encoding on older perls)
  • shipped Data::Dumper::Concise (. in @INC fixes, other bug fixes)
  • more discusson of the treatment of tarball filenames and how our ideals do not match reality (Neil, Todd, Graham, Mickey)
  • started on Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UseUnsafeInc

• Sat:
  • discussion re distribution name, PAUSE indexing etc (many people)
  • released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::EnsureLatestPerl (environment variable override)
  • filed tickets to add support for x_use_unsafe_inc metadata in cpan clients:
    • CPANPLUS (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121656)
    • CPAN (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121659)
    • App::cpanminus (https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/issues/535)
  • completed and released new Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UseUnsafeInc (sets x_use_unsafe_inc metadata variable)
  • released Dist::Zilla::Plugin::EnsureLatestPerl (fixed prereqs)
  • DBIx-Class ownership discussion
  • discussions with Graham, Chris about Module::Load etc

• Sun:
  • discussions with Sawyer, Chris, Aaron, Graham etc about dual-life modules, maintenance policies etc
  • fixed up Moose .xs and .h code for better ppport.h compatibility and compliance (with many thanks to Tux for enlightentment and assistance)
  • filed https://github.com/dagolden/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-ReportPrereqs/issues/34 (how to get code execution into t/00-report-prereqs.t, so that we can include the versions of various JSON backends etc)

Mickey

• Thursday
  • added dist_version field to the 02packages.details new index type
  • added a new endpoint packages/modules/DIST to list modules per dist (for Olaf)
  • added a new endpoint release/contributors (moved code from WEB)
  • discussed 02packages.details parsing with ToddR

• Friday
  • discussion w/ToddR, NeilB, ETHER about dist versions in PAUSE/02packages
  • added a new endpoint /release/files/RELEASE?files=FILE1,FILE2,.... (for Olaf)
  • released MetaCPAN-Client-2.013001 to support 02packages endpoint changes (name and extra fields)
  • released MetaCPAN-Client-2.014000 with a fix for a reported bug & support for the release/contributors API endpoint
  • created a new script for indexing 3rd party package name mapping (Debian) for BOOK
  • changed the contributors endpoint to work for author/release rather than latest dist
  • worked with HAARG on switching WEB to use new contributors endpoint

• Saturday
  • tools improvement: added logging info to the mapping script
  • added mapping for distribution/external_party/debian to the production index
  • improved script for Debian packages mapping & ran manually (initial data fill)
  • deleted data from 'packages' type in production (old type before renaming)
  • discussion 1: Distributions names/versions handling and indexing in PAUSE
  • discussion 2: DBIC aftermath

• Sunday
  • added cleanup mode for 06perms index script
  • added cleanup mode for 02packages.details index script
  • planning for cover data indexing
  • discussion about PTS process & future
  • discussion about historical perms data storing/finding

ugexe

• Fri
  • Brainstorming over native dependency dependency resolution and fulfillment.
  • Discussion about integrating CPAN testers into zef.
  • Update zef's reporter branch to allow the plugin architecture to provide the reporting logic.
  • Tweak zef's META6 parsing of depends to allow for hashes instead of a string, future proofing against a situation where we need a multi-level hash structure that can't be represented by the string format we normally use.

• Sat
  • Stub out garu's Zef::Reporter plugin with code for submitting to p6c testers so they can just refactor the report structure to work with cpan testers.
  • Add build pass/fail and build results output to test report in Zef::Reporter.
  • Discussed adding additional phase pass/fail and results (configure, install, unknown)
  • Fix zef bug when using curl in osx that resulted in corrupted archive.

oalders

• Thu
  • Worked on exposing 06perms on the MetaCPAN front end
  • Spoke with Paul and Leo about tighter integration of cpancover.com into MetaCPAN
• Fri
  • Went live with 06perms on the MetaCPAN front end
  • Wrote blog post to get the word out about this new feature
  • Worked with Babs and Neil on design improvements for 06perms
  • Released a new Net::HTTP which consisted of a patch from Shoichi Kaji
  • Fixed show less/show more copy for large Changes files
• Sat
  • Wrote unit tests for the new MetaCPAN search in API endpoint
  • Sped up Travis builds on the MetaCPAN back end front end
    • Build times are now in the 5-10 minute range, down from 30-40 minutes
  • Added meta::hack sponsors to MetaCPAN sponsors page
  • Got a pull request merged which fixes a bug that showed user favorites for modules which had been deleted
• Sun
  • Worked on making MetaCPAN build logs less noisy
  • Spent time with Leo troubleshooting MetaCPAN search results on the staging machine
  • Had a discussion about a clean 02packages file for PAUSE
  • Had a discussion about logistics for meta::hack v2 (when and where)

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