I made a lot of progress on CPAN Testers at this year's Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS). The PTS is an annual event devoted to maintaining and improving the Perl toolchain. The Perl toolchain includes things like:

• How CPAN distributions are built and installed (modules like ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build)
• How CPAN distributions are developed and released: PAUSE, the Perl Authors Upload Server, the primary source for CPAN mirrors, but also modules like Dist::Zilla
• How CPAN distributions are downloaded: CPAN clients like CPAN.pm
• And other tools around the CPAN ecosystem: Search engines like MetaCPAN, test tools like CPAN Testers, and coverage tools like CPAN Cover

For me, this year's Toolchain Summit was wildly productive, and as always, for every task I completed, two new tasks are revealed to take their place. If anyone would like to help, we could use web developers, backend data developers, devops help, API documentation help, and more. There are little tasks to do over a weekend, or big tasks to take ownership of. Contact me at doug@preaction.me and let me know what you'd be interested in.

Before I get into the full report of what I completed at the summit, I'd like to thank all of the sponsors for this event: NUUG Foundation,Teknologihuset, Booking.com, cPanel, FastMail, Elastic, ZipRecruiter, MaxMind, MongoDB, SureVoIP, Campus Explorer, Bytemark, Infinity Interactive, OpusVL, Eligo, Perl Services, Oetiker+Partner. Without sponsorship, this important work could not get done.