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):