Report of the Debian Perl Sprint 2020

On Mon 15 June 2020
with tags perl sprint

Written by Dominic Hargreaves

Eight members of the Debian Perl team met online between May 15 and May 17 2020, in lieu of a planned physical sprint meeting. Work focussed on preparations for bullseye,
and continued maintenance of the large number of perl modules maintained
by the team.

Whilst an online sprint cannot fully replace an in-person sprint
in terms of focussing attention, the weekend was still very
productive, and progress was made on a range of topics including:

Reducing technical debt by removing unmaintained packages
Beginning packaging and QA for the next major release of perl, 5.32
Deciding on a team policy for hardening flags
Addressing concerns with Alien::*, a set of pacakges designed to download source code
Developing a proposal for debian/NEWS.Developer, to complement
debian/NEWS
Developing a plan to enable SSL verification in HTTP::Tiny
by default

The full report was posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.

The participants would like to thank OpusVL
for providing the Jitsi instance for the weekend.

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