Six members of the Debian Perl team met in Zurich over the weekend from May 19 to May 22 to continue the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA across 3000+ packages.
The participants had a good time, met friends from local groups and even found some geocaches. Obviously, the sprint was productive this time too:
- 36 bugs were filed or worked on, 28 uploads were accepted.
- The plan to get Perl 5.24 transition into Stretch was confirmed, and a test rebuild server was set up.
- Cross building XS modules was demoed, and the conditions where it is viable were discussed.
- Several improvements were made in the team packaging tools, and new features were discussed and drafted.
- A talk on downstream distribution aimed at CPAN authors was proposed for YAPC::EU 2016.
The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
The participants would like to thank the ETH Zurich for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.
The Debian Perl team had its first sprint in May and it was a success: 7 members met in Barcelona the weekend from May 22nd to May 24th to kick off the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA tasks across the more than 3000 packages that the team maintains.
Even though the participants enjoyed the beautiful weather and the food very much, a good amount of work was also done:
- 53 bugs were filed or worked on, 31 uploads were accepted.
- The current practice of patch management (
quilt) was discussed and possible alternatives were shown (git-debcherryandgit-dpm). - Improvements were made in the Debian Perl Tools (
dpt) and discussed how to get track of upstream git history and tags. - Team's policies, documentation and recurring tasks were reviewed and updated.
- Perl 5.22 release was prepared and
src:perlplans for Stretch were discussed. autopkgtestwhitelists were reviewed, new packages added, and IRC notificacions by KGB were discussed.- Outstanding migrations were reviewed.
- Reproducibility issues with
POD_MAN_DATEwere commented.
The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.
The participants would like to thank the Computer Architecture Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.
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