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== Coverage of the hackathon ==

Pictures will be showing up in Flickr with the tag [http://flickr.com/photos/tags/osloperlqa2008/ osloperlqa2008]. brian d foy was also wandering around with a video camera. I expect the results of that will appear at some point.

Of course - lots of folk blogged about the event:

Pre-hackathon:
* Gabor Szabo [http://www.szabgab.com/blog/2008/04/1207076595.html Oslo Hackathon day -4]
* Ricardo Signes: [http://use.perl.org/~rjbs/journal/36028 the oslo qa hackathon cometh]
* brian d foy: [http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/35944 Hackathon goals]
* brian d foy: [http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36055 Oslo QA Hackathon, Wednesday and Thursday]
* brian d foy: [http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36039 Oslo QA Hackathon, the plane trip]
* Ovid: [http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36044 Oslo Perl QA Hackathon]

Day 1 (Friday):
* Ricardo Signes: [http://use.perl.org/~rjbs/journal/36068 oslo qa hackathon day 1]
* jonasbn: [http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/36064Oslo QA Hackathon 2008, day #1]
* David Golden: [http://use.perl.org/~dagolden/journal/36069 Oslo - Day 1 - HTTP transport for CPAN::Testers ]
* Cosimo Streppone: [http://use.perl.org/~cosimo/journal/36066 My Oslo QA Hackaton - Day 1]

Day 2 (Saturday):
* Ricardo Signes: [http://use.perl.org/~rjbs/journal/36085 oslo qa hackathon day 2]
* brian d foy: [http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36081 Oslo QA Hackathon, Saturday]
* jonasbn: [http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/36071 Oslo QA Hackathon 2008, day #2 (saturday) ]
* Ovid: [http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36086 Oslo Perl QA Hackathon, Day 2]
* Cosimo Streppone: [http://use.perl.org/~cosimo/journal/36079 My Oslo QA Hackaton - Day 2 (in progress...) ]
* Ovid: [http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36065 Oslo: TAP Diagnostics]

Day 3 (Sunday)
* jonasbn: [http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/36074 Workflow 0.32_1 released]
* jonasbn: [http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/36077 Oslo QA Hackathon 2008, day #3]
* Ovid [http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36083 TAP YAML Diagnostics]
* brian d foy: [http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36082 New cpan script version]
* Ovid: [http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36080 Automatically Edit All Failing Tests]
* Ovid: [http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/36072 Test Your Installation]
* Adam Kennedy: [http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/36128 The Oslo Consensus]

Post-hackathon:
* Thomas Klausner: [http://use.perl.org/~domm/journal/36105 Oslo QA Hackathon]
* Gabor Szabo: [http://use.perl.org/~gabor/journal/36088 Famous last words]
* jonasbn: [http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/36092 Travelling home from Oslo QA hackathon]
* Adam Kennedy: [http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/36098 http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/36098]
* Ricardo Signes: [http://use.perl.org/~rjbs/journal/36109 random notes after the qa hackathon]
* Jonathan Worthington: [http://use.perl.org/~JonathanWorthington/journal/36095 Rakudo Gets Type Annotations And Checking]
* Michael Peters: [http://use.perl.org/~mpeters/journal/36094 Oslo QA Workshop and Smolder]
* David Golden: [http://use.perl.org/~dagolden/journal/36113 Oslo Hackathon 2008 -- wrap-up writeup]
* brian d foy: [http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/36130 -- accomplishments & wrap up]

== CPAN Metadata Issues ==

A wide range of metadata consensus issues were resolved.

See Adam's [http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/36128 The Oslo Consensus] journal entry for the details.

== Test Anything Protocol ==

A great deal of progress was made on defining some of the features for future versions of tap. This included:
* Nested TAP
* Adding arbitrary meta-data to TAP streams and individual test results in TAP output
* The idea of testing contexts (to separate things like developer testing, release testing, installation testing, smoke testing, etc.)
* Initial drafts of an official TAP specification

For more information see the [http://testanything.org TAP wiki] including:
* [http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/Hackathon_notes Some notes from the Hackathon]
* [http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/TAP_version_13 The draft TAP spec]

Several people worked at developing some prototypes for the new functionality - and some of this can be found in the TAP Subversion Repository at http://svn.hexten.net/tapx

Finally, we produced the initial version of a stand-alone, extendable, data-driven test suite. This will help the development of new TAP parsers by providing a suite of standard tests. The initial version of the test suite can be found at http://svn.hexten.net/tapx/tap-tests. The current suite runs over 600 tests - and has already uncovered some bugs in the TAP::Harness that have been fixed by Andy Armstrong in the repository.

== Testing Best Practices ==

=== Author tests ===

Tests that need to be run by the author or whoever is planning to send a patch should be either
moved to the xt/ directory or skipped based on the RELEASE_TESTING environment variable.
Future versions of the Module::Build, MakeMaker and Module::Install, when the target disttest is
is used should both include the test files from the xt/ directory and set the RELEASE_TESTING
environment variable to 1.

Example:

==== POD::Coverage testing ====

In t/:

 use Test::More;
 plan skip_all => 'Set RELEASE_TESTING=1 to run this test' if not $ENV{RELEASE_TESTING};
 eval 'use Test::Pod::Coverage';
 plan skip_all => 'Needs Test::Pod::Coverage' if $@;
 all_pod_coverage_ok();

In xt/:

 use Test::More;
 eval 'use Test::Pod::Coverage';
 plan skip_all => 'Needs Test::Pod::Coverage' if $@;
 all_pod_coverage_ok();

==== POD testing ====

In t/:

 use Test::More;
 plan skip_all => 'Set RELEASE_TESTING=1 to run this test' if not $ENV{RELEASE_TESTING};
 eval "use Test::Pod"
 plan skip_all => 'Needs Test::Pod' if $@;
 all_pod_files_ok();

In xt/:

 use Test::More;
 eval "use Test::Pod";
 plan skip_all => 'Needs Test::Pod' if $@;
 all_pod_files_ok();

== Test::Reporter ==

Added a pluggable "transport" mechanism for sending Test::Reporter reports to CPAN Testers.  New transports include:

* HTTP transport via a Test::Reporter::HTTPGateway
* SMTP with TLS and authentication via Net::SMTP::TLS
* Reports saved as files in a directory for offline CPAN Testing and manually submission

Modules released:

* [http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Test-Reporter-1.39_04/ Test::Reporter 1.39_04]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Reporter-1.14_02/ CPAN::Reporter 1.14_02]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Test-Reporter-HTTPGateway-0.001/ Test::Reporter::HTTPGateway 0.001]

== Strawberry Perl ==

The "April 1" build - including all of the most common XML libraries - successfully released. See http://strawberryperl.com/ for more information.

== CPANTS ==

* added a lot of new metrics:
** no_generated_files
** has_tests_in_t_dir
** no_stdin_for_prompting
** no_large_files
** metayml_declares_perl_version
** has_version_in_each_file
** fits_fedora_license
** easily_repackageable
** easily_repackageable_by_debian
** easily_repackageable_by_fedora
* add support for aggegregated and experimental metrics
* start to integrate Testing Best Practices
* fixed lots of bugs in prereq_matches_use and build_prereq_matches_use
* mark core and dual-life distributions
* added a page with various [[http://cpants.perl.org/stats.html stats]] to the website
* added a JSON view of 'Prerequisites' page
* various small and not so small improvements all over the place
* collected tons of further ideas and feedback :-)
* released 
** Module::CPANTS::Analyse 0.79
** Module::CPANTS::ProcessCPAN 0.75
** Module::CPANTS::Site 0.75

== Smolder ==

Smolder 1.21 was released. This release fixed several installation
bugs on various platforms and other small bugs. It also adds several new
features. The highlights are:

* Project categories have now been replaced by the more flexible smoke report tags
*  TAP archives can now be downloaded through the UI for a given report
* Graphs can now be done on test run duration if that info was provided in the archive. This was inspired by Ovid's work on the BBC's test suite's run time.
* The default DB-Platform is now SQLite instead of MySQL

See the change log for full details.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/smolder


Michael has also discussed changing the terms of current TPF grant so that the final part involves creating a Smolder smoke platform for Parrot. Which sounds jolly sensible. Adrian will be taking it up with the grant committee.

== FreeBSD ==

* better support for CPAN module installation
* detection of duel life modules
* should be committed after FreeBSD testing cycle

== Debian ==

* Found some problems with CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb produced debian packages not being rebuildable as debian pacakges. Not fixed yet, but the fix is easy.
* debian's core perl's Scalar::Util::weaken will be fixed

== Data::UUID ==

Debian will attempt to CPAN-ify their free UUID perl code, making the unclearly licensed Data::UUID obsolete.

== CPAN Testers 2.0 ==

(aka CPAN Metabase)

== Parallel CORE testing ==

* Plan is made
* Pseudo code has been written
* Configuration file defined and created
* Implementation on its way

== Module::Release using multiple perls ==

* Module::Release 1.21 can now test will multiple, local perls.
* Just add a line to the .releaserc 
<pre>perls /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.0:/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.2:/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8-threaded</pre>
* H. Merijn Brand used it to test the latest Text::CSV_XS

== Pay Jonathan to hack one day a week on Rakudo Perl ==

Not a real achievement of the Hackathon per se, but it was started there:

[http://socialtext.useperl.at/woc/index.cgi?work_1_day_per_week_on_rakudo Pay Jonathan to hack one day a week on Rakudo Perl]

== Hackathon Module Releases ==

* [http://search.cpan.org/~adie/Test-Class-0.29/ Test::Class 0.29]
** more flexible test class loading
** bug fixes

* [http://search.cpan.org/~adie/Test-Class-0.29/ Test::Class 0.30]
** all outstanding RT bugs resolved

* YAML::Tiny
** now supports document ends

* Text::CSV_XS
** now supports bind_columns (), which - depending on your use - gives you a speed improvement of up to 3 times in getline ().

* [http://search.cpan.org/~domm/CPAN-Mini-FromList-0.01/ CPAN::Mini::FromList 0.01]
** lets you generate a minicpan containing only the modules you listed
** <pre>minicpan-fromlist --local ~/mytestpan/ Acme::MetaSyntactic DBIx::Class</pre>
** also generates a fake 02packages.txt.gz

* [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Extract-VERSION Module::Extract::VERSION]
** The same thing PAUSE does to get a module version, but without PAUSE
** Used for BackPAN indexing

* [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Extract-Namespaces Module::Extract::Namespaces]
** Pull out the package statements from a file using PPI
** Used for BackPAN indexing

* [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Release Module::Release 1.21]
** Test releases with multiple perl binaries

* [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Software-License Software::License 0.002]
** guess at license based on POD docs

As well as:
* [http://search.cpan.org/~domm/Module-CPANTS-Analyse-0.79/ Module::CPANTS::Analyse 0.79]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~domm/Module-CPANTS-ProcessCPAN-0.75/ Module::CPANTS::ProcessCPAN 0.75]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~domm/Module-CPANTS-Site-0.75/ Module::CPANTS::Site 0.75]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/Test-Reporter-1.39_04/ Test::Reporter 1.39_04]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Reporter-1.14_02/ CPAN::Reporter 1.14_02]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Test-Reporter-HTTPGateway-0.001/ Test::Reporter::HTTPGateway 0.001]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~jonasbn/Workflow-0.32_1/ Workflow-0.32_1]

== Just one more thing... ==

The surprise hit of the hackathon was a wonderful gtk-perl application by Nadim - which can best be described as "Visio for ASCII Art".

A release is on CPAN after much nagging by everybody who saw it. It's really rather nice!


                  (> <)----.      .--------.
                           |------| AsciiO |
                           |      '--------'
                   (\_/)---|
                           |-----(O.o)
                           |
 Oslo QA Hackathon 2008----.
                           |
                           v
                         (\_/)
                         (O.o)
                         (> <)

Watch AsciiO screencasts:
 (size: 30 MB, with presentation) [http://khemir.net/files_for_download/AsciiO_0_96.avi]
 (size: 14 MB, with music) [http://khemir.net/files_for_download/BRI_Flytrap-and-AsciiO.avi]

Go play with [http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/ Asciio] It rocks.

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