PTS 2025 Projects
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Group discussions ("consensus documents") proposals
* Salve J. Nilsen (sjn) - Update to the CPAN Meta Spec, in light of new legal requirements from different legislators (including the Cyber Resilience Act): https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/CPAN-Meta/issues/137
* Salve J. Nilsen (sjn) - Sustainability-related metadata. What metadata can be added to help CPAN projects find new maintainers?
* ...
Presentations
* Salve J. Nilsen (sjn) - CPANSec as an Open Source Steward, and what it can mean for CPAN and the toolchain
* Salve J. Nilsen (sjn) - Metadata and SBOM requirements from different legislations
* ...
Leon Timmermans (leont)
New CPAN client
Current CPAN clients have limitations that I believe can not be fixed without fundamentally changing the core of how they resolve dependencies, therefor I think we need a new CPAN client.
* Thorough support for recommended and suggested dependencies (including when they get circular)
* Strong support for parallel installation (and especially parallel downloading versus installing)
* Pluggable support for installing external dependencies
* Policy based decision making (e.g. licensing or security related).
Asynchronous TAP::Harness
Currently the async support in TAP::Harness is a hack on Unix, and not even functional on Windows. It needs to be rewired from a pull architecture to a push architecture to actually work as intended.
Ruth Holloway (geekruthie)
CPAN testers infra
cpantesters has been operating in a degraded state for quite a while. I look forward to working with preaction and others to stabilize the existing systems where possible.
Breno Oliveira (garu)
I am particularly interested in bridging the gap between MetaCPAN and other essential toolchain projects such as CPAN Testers and CPANSec, making them more visible and useful to developers.
Salve J. Nilsen (sjn)
* Discuss an update to the CPAN Meta Spec, in light of new legal requirements from different legislators (including the Cyber Resilience Act): https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/CPAN-Meta/issues/137
* Discuss the role of CPANSec as an Open Source Steward (a new organization envisioned in the Cyber Resilience Act)
H.Merijn Brand (Tux)
* CPANSec tooling, using the DBI project to test them on
* Configure results into SBOM (with @sjn)
* Discuss new possible threat-detections by new gcc behavior
* Discuss having Test::CVE resulst be paprt of CpanTesters results
Paul Johnson (pjcj)
* Make Devel::Cover work with 5.42
* Get cpancover working fully inside docker and ensure it works across different environments
* Work with MetaCPAN folk on redundancy, backups, running in their infrastructure etc.
* Try to make a dent on github tickets
Paul Evans (LeoNerd)
No pre-planned projects, my intention is to loiter in conversations and represent P5P / core aspects, and see where the week takes me.
* Possibly will find time to work on my `faster-signatures` branch, with an aim to having "no-snails" ready for merge at 5.43.0, and line things up towards supporting named params as per PPC0024
Laurent Boivin (Elbeho)
* Make sure that people can have their refunds
* Make the backups of Act database more resilient
* Give a try to PSGI implementation of Act
