Besides thanking the sponsors, I also want to have a dedicated entry to say a big Thank You to the organizers. Neil Bowers, JJ, and Barbie. It was an incredible experience, well organized, nice city, and especially a nice hotel which although it could not provide "the real Wall" at least tried very hard to surround me with little Perl history hints:

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This year at the Perl QA Hackathon I had three topics: benchmark update Perl until 5.24, enable CPAN test reporting on L4Linux, release a Net::SSH::Perl v2 to CPAN.

Part 3 - Net::SSH::Perl

I am co-maintaining Net::SSH::Perl, though usually I just apply patches that come up on RT or github.

Some months ago L…

This year at the Perl QA Hackathon I had three topics: benchmark update Perl until 5.24, enable CPAN test reporting on L4Linux, release a Net::SSH::Perl v2 to CPAN.

Part 2 - CPAN testing on L4 Linux

To extend the diversity of platforms on CPAN TESTERS, I brought a laptop with me which runs on the L4Re micro-kernel in order to set up CPAN::Reporter tools on it. T…

This year at the Perl QA Hackathon I had three topics: benchmark update Perl until 5.24, enable CPAN test reporting on L4Linux, release a Net::SSH::Perl v2 to CPAN.

Part 1 - Benchmark::Perl::Formance

To keep a benchmark stable but still allow further development, last year I started to create separate bundles of existing benchmarks, starting with the "="https://metacpan.org/pod/Benchmark::Perl::Forman…