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.

The Debian Ruby Ruby team had a first sprint in 2014. The experience was very positive, and it was decided to do it again in 2015. Last April, the team once more met at the IRILL offices, in Paris, France.

The participants worked to improve the quality Ruby packages in Debian, including fixing release critical and security bugs, improving metadata and packaging code, and triaging test failures on the Debian Continuous Integration service.

The sprint also served to prepare the team infrastructure for the future Debian 9 release:

• the gem2deb packaging helper to improve the semi-automated generation of Debian source packages from existing standard-compliant Ruby packages from Rubygems.

• there was also an effort to prepare the switch to Ruby 2.2, the latest stable release of the Ruby language which was released after the Debian testing suite was already frozen for the Debian 8 release.

Left to right: Christian Hofstaedtler, Tomasz Nitecki, Sebastien Badia and Antonio Terceiro.

A full report with technical details has been posted to the relevant Debian mailing lists.