From ssoriche at sackheads.org  Tue Oct  1 11:16:13 2019
From: ssoriche at sackheads.org (Shawn Sorichetti)
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 14:16:13 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Follow-up to Lightning Talks
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Message-ID: <186CEC31-DE50-4048-8C84-998F57B7AC70@sackheads.org>

Hi Alan,

It wasn?t an empty file at the beginning it was an empty git commit. To create one issue the command:

git commit ?allow-empty ?message ?Initial commit?

This will allow you to rebase all the way back to the beginning of the repository.

The other option, which I still haven?t got around to trying is to issue:

git rebase -i ?root

This is supposed to allow rebasing of the very first commit.

~Shawn

>> On Sep 29, 2019, at 1:23 PM, "arocker at vex.net" <arocker at vex.net wrote:
> ?
> There was a suggestion that when creating a new program in a Git
> repository, it's a good idea for the initial commit always to be an
> "empty" file.
> 
> If this is being done as a step in an automatic process to start from a
> generic skeleton, would it be better:
> 
> a) just to "touch" the name, then add and commit, before writing the file
> b) write the generic file, add & commit
> c) not important either way?
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From olaf.alders at gmail.com  Thu Oct 17 06:41:25 2019
From: olaf.alders at gmail.com (Olaf Alders)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:41:25 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Looking for a conference room for Dec 5-8
Message-ID: <A103AB99-53B5-4167-8B80-CA3680C1B7DC@gmail.com>

Hi Everyone,

The MetaCPAN core developers are going to be hacking on MetaCPAN in Toronto from Dec 5-8.  We have a potential space to work out of, but it?s not 100%.  I was wondering if anyone had a contact with access to a space we could use for 5-7 developers from a Thursday to a Sunday.  Does anyone know who our contact was at Mozilla?  Does anyone have a contact at U of T?  Just want to make sure we have options.

Also, would anyone be interested in having the TPM social on Dec 5th so that we can all hang out?

Olaf

From olaf.alders at gmail.com  Fri Oct 18 19:53:23 2019
From: olaf.alders at gmail.com (Olaf Alders)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 22:53:23 -0400
Subject: [tpm] This month's meeting: Hacking with Hugo
Message-ID: <BF0FDE7E-FB5E-4AD5-BA24-8524FCC84BD5@gmail.com>

I thought it would be fun to have another hack night.  A few years ago we converted the TPM web site from static to a Dancer app.  Then a few years later we converted from Dancer to Mojo.  Now I think we should convert to a statically generated site via Hugo.  Why?  Because it?s fun and, to be honest, we?re only using Mojo as a templating system.  Generating the site via Hugo would be an interesting learning experience and may well make the site easier to update, since you don?t have to install a bunch of Perl dependencies first.  Also, the sad truth is that the site really doesn?t get updated, so reducing any friction to updates is probably a good thing.  Hugo is not written in Perl, but I don?t think that should stop us from adopting it.  It?s good tech.

On a related note, the perl.com site is also generated by Hugo.  I thought that we could try a two pronged approach this week.  Some of us break into a group and work on converting the TPM site.  The others have a look at this outstanding ticket: https://github.com/tpf/perldotcom/issues/194 <https://github.com/tpf/perldotcom/issues/194>  If, as part of our meet, we can contribute to the Perl community at large by fixing this bug, I think that?s time well spent.

To hear more about Hugo: https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2019/05/tpdp-e27-static-website-generation-hugo/ <https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2019/05/tpdp-e27-static-website-generation-hugo/>

To prepare for the event, you can follow this tutorial on how to contribute to perl.com: https://www.perl.com/article/how-to-write-your-first-article-for-perl-com/ <https://www.perl.com/article/how-to-write-your-first-article-for-perl-com/>  That will get you started with Hugo.

I don?t plan to prepare a presentation for this evening.  It?s my hope that people can bring their laptops with Hugo already installed and we can muddle through it together, hopefully learning helpful things in the process.

Olaf


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From olaf.alders at gmail.com  Fri Oct 25 09:09:14 2019
From: olaf.alders at gmail.com (Olaf Alders)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:09:14 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Last night's meeting
Message-ID: <DC8512EF-1C76-4CF6-A719-BE4100DEDEFC@gmail.com>

A few thoughts from last night, but before that, if you haven?t seen it, the December social has already been announced, please RSVP if you plan to attend. 

https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Perl-Mongers/events/rhsxwpyzpblc/ <https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Perl-Mongers/events/rhsxwpyzpblc/>

Cees fixed the issue with the perl.com <http://perl.com/> web site: https://github.com/tpf/perldotcom/pull/211 <https://github.com/tpf/perldotcom/pull/211>

We realized that http://to.pm.org/ <http://to.pm.org/> is no longer resolving, so we decided to move our static site to github?s hosting.

Our new site, once it is ready to go, will live at https://toronto-perl-mongers.github.io/ <https://toronto-perl-mongers.github.io/>

Isaac started working on the Hugo setup for the new site.  It will live at https://github.com/toronto-perl-mongers/tpm-site-generator <https://github.com/toronto-perl-mongers/tpm-site-generator>

We added new members to our GitHub org.

Once it?s set up our flow will be that merged pull requests will  trigger a build by Hugo and then a deployment of the static site.  So, hopefully, it?ll be smooth process.  We can look into GitHub actions to do this.  If this doesn?t happen organically we can schedule another hack night to do this.  I think it?s well worth it since there are lots of areas of the stack to learn about and if something goes wrong with the site, it?s not really such a bad problem.

That might be an interesting thing to tackle in November while it?s still fresh in our minds?

I think we could maybe do a better job of using the screen.  Maybe have one person hacking and sharing their screen with the room and then another smaller group that works together on some other part.  Anyway, I personally learned a bunch yesterday and found it to be quite helpful.

Olaf
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From olaf.alders at gmail.com  Fri Oct 25 10:15:06 2019
From: olaf.alders at gmail.com (Olaf Alders)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:15:06 -0400
Subject: [tpm] Chat/IRC
Message-ID: <7ED90933-5EF3-4AEE-B1EF-E4FC97CAD31F@gmail.com>

Also, there was talk of setting up a chat group last night, but the consensus was to stick with IRC.  Our IRC channel is #tpm at irc.perl.org <http://irc.perl.org/>  Right now just Shawn and I are idling there.  It?s a lonely place!  We could also switch to Slack if IRC is a limiting factor for people.

Olaf
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From olaf.alders at gmail.com  Fri Oct 25 10:29:15 2019
From: olaf.alders at gmail.com (Olaf Alders)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:29:15 -0400
Subject: [tpm] IRCcloud
Message-ID: <F0845E53-FDB3-47B2-AEA7-FAD77BE19B12@gmail.com>

Abram just pointed out to me that folks might want to try out https://www.irccloud.com/ <https://www.irccloud.com/>.  I just started using it yesterday.  It has a nice in-browser way to interact with IRC and the iOS app isn?t bad either.  It?s a pretty low friction way to get set up.

Just enter irc.perl.org <http://irc.perl.org/> as the server name and choose a handle for yourself.  Add the #tpm channel and you?re ready to go.

Olaf
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