MCH: MetaCPAN Hackathon

Nov 17 - 20 @ ServerCentral in Chicago

Goals / plans for the MetaCPAN Hackathon

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

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

Improve search results to match expectations!
- How do we test we are improving it?
- 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.

Leo
- LHR->ORD BA1544, 11:50 Wed 16 Nov 2016 (arrive 14:55 on Wed local time)
- ORD->LHR BA1543, 19:00 Sun 20 Nov 2016
Olaf
- YTZ->MDW PD397, 21:25 Wed 16 Nov 2016
- MDW->YTZ PD394, 19:35 Sun 20 Nov 2016
Mickey
- AMS->ORD LH9154, 13:20 Tue 15 Nov 2016
- ORD->MUC LH435, 21:35 Sun 20 Nov 2016
- MUC->AMS LH2306, 14:40 Mon 21 Nov 2016
Thomas
- SEA ✈ ORD UA670, 19:35 Wed 16 Nov 2016
- ORD ✈ SEA ASA21, 19:50 Sun 20 Nov 2016
Graham
- BWI->ORD NK369, 18:57 Thu 10 Nov 2016
- ORD->BWI NK992, 20:27 Sun 20 Nov 2016