Projects

Projects

Use this page to describe projects you want to work on at the hackathon. This page is formatted with POD, so you can follow the example of projects already posted; just select "Pod" from formats. You can use the following POD skeleton, modified to your project's needs.

=head2 Project Name

Description of project and goals for hackathon.

=over 4

=item * Web Site

=item * Source Code Repository

=item * Version Control System

=back

=head3 Tasks

Describe individual tasks here.

=head3 Participants

Jill Hacker, [email protected], IRC handle: jillhack

Meet the Perl 5 Core Distribution

Sign up for this project if you want to hack on the Perl 5 core distribution. Experience helpful, but not necessary. If you have never hacked on the core before, we will assign you tasks that require only knowlege of Perl and that will be helpful for the core, particularly in the lead-up to this spring's release of Perl 5 Version 18.

• Sites

  • Source Code: perl.git

  • Bug Tracker: RT

  • Mailing List: Perl 5 Porters

  • IRC: irc.perl.org #p5p

• Getting and Building Perl 5

  % git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git perl
  % cd perl
  % sh ./Configure -de -Dusedevel
  % make
  % make test

Tasks

• Add descriptions to tests lacking them

  There are many test files in the core distribution which lack descriptions for individual tests. Task is to study the test code and write an appropriate description. We will provide a list of test files needing attention.

• Write a Porting/README explaining Porting contents

  See: RT #116477.

• Flesh out perlexperiment.pod

  See: RT #116473

• Automate perldelta's "new modules" section

  See: RT #116475

• Supply patches to upstream to fix perl install locations

  See: RT #116479

• Write test to ensure perlhist.pod has size for blead-final release

  See: RT #116481

• Profile installman and improve its performance

  See: RT #116485

Participants

Jim Keenan, [email protected], IRC: kid51

Catalyst SOAP modules

Update the Catalyst SOAP modules to make it work with the latest Catalyst. They have some things that are dependent on internal mechanics of Catalyst that are not working properly with the newest versions.

• Web Site: http://search.cpan.org/~druoso/Catalyst-Controller-SOAP-1.23/

• Source Code Repository: https://github.com/ruoso/Catalyst-Controller-SOAP

• Version Control System: Git

Tasks

• make sure it works with the latest of all dependencies.

• address all reported test failures

• solve any outstanding issues from RT.

Participants

Daniel Ruoso, [email protected], IRC: ruoso