PTS 2026 Projects

Add projects below that you're thinking of working on. If you see someone else's project that you'd like to help on, add your name, but email them as well please.

Group discussions (/ "consensus documents") proposals

• Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) - What do we want from CPAN clients (and can the current generation of them provide that).
• Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) - What do we want from XS (and can XS provide that)...
• Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) - Is it time to drop CPAN Meta 1.4 / META.yml? (consensus discussion)

• Salve J. Nilsen (‎sjn‎) - Needed: Fully support out-of-ecosystem requirements/deps and vendored-in deps; EU CRA-required metadata; PackageURLs; SBOM support; Overview: https://github.com/orgs/CPAN-Security/projects/1
• Salve J. Nilsen (‎sjn‎) - CPAN Meta 3.0 is needed. Would it make sense to put it in a separate directory? (e.g. like META-INF in .jar files), so there's one place for all machine-readable metadata files. Both the native ones, but also SBOMs, VEX files, CONTRIBUTING.yaml, security-insights,json, etc.
• Salve J. Nilsen (‎sjn‎) - Establishing an EU CRA Open Source Steward organization
• Todd Rinaldo (‎toddr‎) - Discuss the use of AI in perl open source projects. Impact of Copyright? Concerns about review burden on the maintainer vs underlying contributor.

Projects

• Paul Johnson (‎pjcj‎) - I'd like to put out a major release of Devel::Cover: faster, new features, breaking changes. It might not be get completed during PTS but hopefully much of it will. Need to look at cpancover updates and keeping compatibility with metacpan, or updating things on both ends.
• H.Merijn Brand (‎Tux‎) - continue conversion of Test::Smoke data(base) to Test2 infra-format and help tib modernizing Test::Smoke
• Philippe Bruhat (‎BooK‎) I'd like to start the "Perl Platforms" project: define the tiers of support, have a new documentation page about it added to the core, come up with some strategy with the PSC.
• Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) Add missing features to ExtUtils::ParseXS
• Leon Timmermans (‎leont‎) Finish static install support in CPAN.pm
• Christian Walde (‎Mithaldu‎) PPI and providing windows info
• Paul Evans (‎LeoNerd‎) Representing P5P and the PSC; likely working on some 5.44 pre-release tasks, holding a PSC meeting, and generally thinking through projects and plans for the next 5.45 development cycle
• Todd Rinaldo (‎toddr‎) Hoping to talk to Paul Evans (‎LeoNerd‎) about possible fixes to B::C to make it possible to release it on CPAN without patches!
• Shoichi Kaji (‎skaji‎) Release cpm version 1.0 during PTS