Three members of the Debian Perl Group met in Hamburg between May 23 and May 30 2022 as part of the Debian Reunion Hamburg to continue perl development work for Bookworm and to work on QA tasks across our 3800+ packages.

The participants had a good time and met other Debian friends. The sprint was also productive:

• pkg-perl-tools and dh-make-perl were improved and extended.
• More than 50 uploads were done, and more than 30 bugs were fixed or at least triaged.
• autopkgtests were added to lots of packages.
• Some requests to remove obsolete packages were filed as well.

The more detailed report was posted to the Debian Perl mailing list.

The participants would like to thank the Debian Reunion Hamburg organizers for providing the framework for our sprint, all sponsors of the event, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover parts of our expenses.

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.

Three members of the Debian Perl team met in Hamburg between May 16 and May 20 2018 as part of the Mini-DebConf Hamburg to continue perl development work for Buster and to work on QA tasks across our 3500+ packages.

The participants had a good time and met other Debian friends. The sprint was productive:

• 21 bugs were filed or worked on, many uploads were accepted.
• The transition to Perl 5.28 was prepared, and versioned provides were again worked on.
• Several cleanup tasks were performed, especially around the move from Alioth to Salsa in documentation, website, and wiki.
• For src:perl, autopkgtests were enabled, and work on Versioned Provides has been resumed.

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

The participants would like to thank the Mini-DebConf Hamburg organizers for providing the framework for our sprint, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.

Six members of the Debian Perl team met in Zurich over the weekend from May 19 to May 22 to continue the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA across 3000+ packages.

The participants had a good time, met friends from local groups and even found some geocaches. Obviously, the sprint was productive this time too:

• 36 bugs were filed or worked on, 28 uploads were accepted.
• The plan to get Perl 5.24 transition into Stretch was confirmed, and a test rebuild server was set up.
• Cross building XS modules was demoed, and the conditions where it is viable were discussed.
• Several improvements were made in the team packaging tools, and new features were discussed and drafted.
• A talk on downstream distribution aimed at CPAN authors was proposed for YAPC::EU 2016.

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

The participants would like to thank the ETH Zurich for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.

The Debian Perl team had its first sprint in May and it was a success: 7 members met in Barcelona the weekend from May 22nd to May 24th to kick off the development around perl for Stretch and to work on QA tasks across the more than 3000 packages that the team maintains.

Even though the participants enjoyed the beautiful weather and the food very much, a good amount of work was also done:

• 53 bugs were filed or worked on, 31 uploads were accepted.
• The current practice of patch management (quilt) was discussed and possible alternatives were shown (git-debcherry and git-dpm).
• Improvements were made in the Debian Perl Tools (dpt) and discussed how to get track of upstream git history and tags.
• Team's policies, documentation and recurring tasks were reviewed and updated.
• Perl 5.22 release was prepared and src:perl plans for Stretch were discussed.
• autopkgtest whitelists were reviewed, new packages added, and IRC notificacions by KGB were discussed.
• Outstanding migrations were reviewed.
• Reproducibility issues with POD_MAN_DATE were commented.

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

The participants would like to thank the Computer Architecture Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for hosting us, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover a large part of our expenses.