MCH: MetaCPAN Hackathon

Nov 17 - 20 @ ServerCentral in Chicago

• ServerCentral 111 W. Jackson Blvd. Suite 1600 Chicago, IL 60604

• Apartments 402 and 408, 1540 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago | Street view

• Check in: November 16, 2016 from 4:00 PM

• Check out: November 20, 2016 11:00 AM

• Dinner Wednesday take-away from - http://pequodspizza.com/chicago/ | or some people might want to go to it map

Goals / plans for the MetaCPAN Hackathon

• API Tickets
• Web Tickets

Switch to new ES index

• Review ES configuration and indexing is optimal and does not need a re-index (PRE MC::Hack)
• Look at snapshots/backups
• Migrate user data

Fix:

• Login / rating problem to be fixed
• Counting of feature requests/roadmap as "issues" (perhaps via whitelist tags etc)

Discuss, make plans, work on:

• Improve search results to match expectations!

  • How do we test we are improving it? (Joel is working on this)
  • Suboptimal searches to improve

• Improve Perl releases

  • Perl not returning in searches
  • Perl not auto indexing

• Unified logging system in place (Logstash/Kibana - ES 5 on a BM box)?

• ES backup / restore / reindex processes we should have documented

• Postgres data source (and infrastructure)

• Cleaning up code...

  • Move some search queries from web to api.. So avoiding duplication in clients... should have a separate namespace? - warnings about usage?...
  • Documentation
  • Tests
  • Gutting or reworking async in metacpan-web

• Can we re-index to a new index without taking down the primary (for re-building from scratch)?

• How does/could full reindex/rebuilding of data preserve the point-in-time "was this release authorized?" values?

  • Currently seems to only check the current 02packages + 06perms.
  • May be performance hit since it needs looking up for all ~300k releases, but it seems important to get right if MetaCPAN's API is to be used by CPAN clients.

Confirmed Attendees

• Olaf Alders
• Leo Lapworth (Ranguard)
• Mickey Nasriachi
• Joel Berger
• Thomas Sibley (trs)
• Brad Lhotsky (reyjrar)

Flight details:

• Leo
  • LHR->ORD BA1544, 11:50 Wed 16 Nov 2016 (arriving Wed, get to apartment 4ish local time)
  • ORD->LHR BA1543, 19:00 Sun 20 Nov 2016
• Olaf
  • YTZ ✈ MDW PD397, 21:25 Wed 16 Nov 2016 (arriving Wed apartment 11pm ish)
  • MDW ✈ YTZ PD394, 19:35 Sun 20 Nov 2016
• Mickey
  • AMS->ORD LH9154, 13:20 Tue 15 Nov 2016 (arriving on Tuesday)
  • ORD->MUC LH435, 21:35 Sun 20 Nov 2016
  • MUC->AMS LH2306, 14:40 Mon 21 Nov 2016
• Thomas
  • SEA ✈ ORD UA670, arriving 19:35 Wed 16 Nov 2016
  • ORD ✈ SEA ASA21, departing 19:50 Sun 20 Nov 2016
• Graham
  • BWI->ORD NK369, 18:57 Thu 10 Nov 2016 (arrived already!)
  • ORD->BWI NK992, 20:27 Sun 20 Nov 2016
• Brad
  • OAK ✈ MDW SW2167, 21:05 Wed 16 Nov 2016 (arriving Wed apartment 10pm ish)
  • MDW ✈ OAK SW2427, 08:10 Sun 20 Nov 2016