Alexandr Ciornii - perl developer.

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What is Hackathon Toronto?

A one-day, face-to-face, collective hacking session focused on Perl, Parrot and related open source programming projects. See Projects to see what we'll be hacking on or to add your own project.

When?

Saturday, April 28, 2007, 9:00 am till you drop. (Follow-up: we dropped at about 6:00 pm.)

Where?

Indoor Playground, 364 Richmond St W (Richmond and Peter). See Location for maps and directions. The Indoor Playground is located on the 5th floor, Suite 503. For access to the building on the ground floor -- when you get to the front door call 647-838-6419. Someone will either come down to get you or can tell you the buzzcode for the building front door then. If the security guard is still on duty, please show some ID. P.S.: The elevator works!

Who?

Sign up on the Attendees page.

Why?

Because collective hacking is fun.

Communications (human, email, and computer)

• IRC channel: irc://irc.perl.org/hackathon

Hackathon logistics

• The Todo list tracks organizational tasks. Add your name if you can help out.

Transportation

• The Arrival Schedule will help coordinate transportation.
• Use the Departure Schedule if you'd like to coordinate your leaving.

Pointers

First time at a Perl Hackathon? Got advice for new Hackathoners? Look at the Hackathon Attendees HOWTO and improve it if you can.

Thinking of bringing a spouse or kids? Get some idea about what's around from the Hacker Widows and Hacker Orphans pages.

Since participating in Hackathon Chicago, Jim Keenan has been working on refactoring those Parrot configuration and build tools written in Perl 5. The refactoring is being done along Phalanx lines: write tests, do coverage analysis, refactor code, repeat. Jim invites you to join him in this project, which requires only Perl 5.

A good idea of what we'll be working on can be gleaned from browsing these Parrot RT tickets (listed in reverse chronological order, which is not necessarily the order of importance):

• [perl #42690] [TODO] optionally run configure/build tests during config process
• [perl #42609] [BUG] make html vs. DEVELOPING
• [perl #42563] Makefile.PL dies in an ugly way when compiler not found Researched; no patch yet
• [perl #42429] [BUG]: docs/submission.pod: Confusing use of term 'test' PATCH SUBMITTED
• [perl #42427] [CAGE] cleanup perlcritic errors
• [perl #42412] Configure.pl things =no is true Researched; no patch yet
• [perl #41912] [CAGE] survey tools/ dir for unused, old, or broken code, and remove or fix as necessary TICKET UPDATED
• [perl #42362] [TODO]: Unit tests for modules used during configuration
• [perl #42360] [TODO]: Unit tests for Parrot::Revision Researched; no patch yet
• [perl #42339] [CAGE] Test Valid and Invalid Parrot Flags
• [perl #42330] [BUG]: New warning during 'make': 'MAX' redefined
• [perl #42293] t/doc/pod.t vs. tools/doc/pod_errors.pl
• [perl #42072] [BUG]: pmc2c.pl: Does anyone (know how to) use the 'no-body' option? RESOLVED
• [perl #42040] tools/dev/mk_manifest_and_skip.pl doesn't pick up files that are marked svn deleted but not yet committed
• [perl #41915] [TODO] remove unused manifest-generating scripts
• [perl #41201] [TODO] Remove temporary conf hack in Configure.pl RESOLVED
• [perl #41886] [CAGE] Use lcov to show code coverage
• [perl #39823] [CAGE] tools/dev/run_indent.pl -- this should be a test
• [perl #41897] [BUG]: Parrot::Pmc2c::STMRef gets 'subroutine prederef redefined' warning
• [perl #41895] [TODO] Use Getopt for argument parsing in perlcritic.t TICKET UPDATED
• [perl #41695] [CAGE]: Refactor Parrot::Distribution
• [perl #41611] [TODO] Write a test for is_perl_exemption() RESOLVED outside of Hackathon
• [perl #41186] [BUG]: tools/build/ops2pm.pl: Variable used in both package scope and loop iteration RESOLVED

No Perl 6 hackers attended.

(We never got around to formulating a schedule. We just did it.)

√ marks people who participated in person.
OL marks people who participated on-line.

(Please keep this in alphabetical order)

The collection of heap algorithms and element structures (from Mastering Algorithms, the wolf book).

Results:

1. Integrated set of patches from Tels++
2. Added extension and speedup suggested directly and indirectly by Tels' patches
3. Released version 0.80 to CPAN

CGI::Application::Framework on CPAN

Todo list for today

I've tried to install CGI::Application::Framework on Win32 and installation of Apache::SessionX failed. See RT#26533: DB_File test hangs on Win32.

Is CGI::Application::Framework used by anyone? I see that I'm first to submit cpantesters report for it. And Apache::SessionX has only 5 reports, all FAIL.

contributed by Alexandr Ciornii

Which means that it would be good to work on Apache::SessionX at the hackathon as well. --Jim Keenan

Patched Apache::SessionX. Download patch.

Log::Dispatch::Config also fails under Windows.

contributed by alexchorny@gmail.com on Apr 28 7:52am

Wrote patch for Log::Dispatch::Config - it's test's problem. Tests can be simply skipped.

contributed by alexchorny@gmail.com on Apr 28 2:04pm

Meeting Space

Thanks to Matt Rice and Richard Dice for help in arranging meeting space!

Thanks to Mark Dowds, major domo of the Indoor Playground, for making this great workspace available!

Wiki

Thanks to Andy Lester for hosting the wiki.

Inspiring Predecessors

Thanks to those who organized previous Perl hackathons that I've attended: Richard Dice and Matt Rice for the CGI::Application::Framework in Toronto in October 2005; Andy Lester and Pete Krawczyk for Hackathon Chicago in November 2006.

Lunch and Refreshments

Generously provided by Raybec Communications Inc.

CAF Todo List

• Document/simplify install
• Document the undocumented modules
• Review architecture
• location of application libraries (Myapp.pm)
• core/default included modules
• clean up URIs

Config::Context wishlist

• Get context from object (using "context" method)
• Provide access to the Config::Context object from the plugin