Paul Johnson

I didn't get as much done on the final day of the Perl Toolchain Summit because I needed to get home for work on Monday. But I did manage to enlist others in helping me, which is even better.

Devel::Cover has always had a problem in that top level statements (those not in a sub) in modules cannot be covered. This is because perl throws away the optree as soon as it has executed. My knowledge of the internals has never been good enough to even work out a sensible plan for how to solve this, but fortunately Aaron Crane is a good deal cleverer than me and thinks he might be able to develop a solution. It may need perl to have extra hooks, or it might involve deep magic, or both, but at least the end of the tunnel is not pitch black any more. Thanks Aaron!

Then I was discussing how to improve cpancover with Olaf and mentioned that a queue for newly uploaded modules would help to reduce latency for the coverage reports. Joel Berger was sitting right there too, and he knows something about Minion, the job queue for Mojolicious. Joel kindly offered to put together a queue system to replace my naïve shell script. Thanks Joel!

I took part in the discussion about the future of the PTS (spoiler - we like it, and have a few ideas on how to make it better still) and then it was time to head back home.

Thanks to Neil, BooK, and Laurent for organising such a great event. Thanks to Wendy to keeping us all healthily fed (or not so healthily, if desired). Thanks to Lee for giving me lifts. Thanks to everyone who attended and helped make the event such a success. And, as ever, thanks to the sponsors: Booking.com, ActiveState, cPanel, FastMail, MaxMind, Perl Careers, MongoDB, SureVoIP, Campus Explorer, Bytemark, CAPSiDE, Charlie Gonzalez, Elastic, OpusVL, Perl Services, Procura, Oetiker+Partner.