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The Perl QA Hackathon is still looking for Sponsors
Last year I shared an article about how You Can Help MetaCPAN by Helping the QA Hackathon. A year later, you can still help MetaCPAN by helping the QA Hackathon. As one of the core MetaCPAN developers, I’m planning to attend this event next month. It’s still the best chance that I get to sit down and focus …
MetaCPAN Welcomes Panopta as a Sponsor
As you may know MetaCPAN as a project has no budget. We rarely solicit funds because we rarely need to pay for anything. This has allowed us to focus on the project itself rather than the administrative issues that arise whenever money changes hands. Because these relationships allow us the freedom to do what we need …
MetaCPAN Welcomes our Newest OPfW Interns
You may have already seen the news. The latest round of GNOME’s Outreach Program for Women is now underway. I will have the pleasure of acting as a mentor for Rose Ames and Andreea Pirvulescu. My main responsibility is to make sure they have no significant blockers, so CPAN authors, don’t be surprised if I …
Can you send 24 pull requests this December?
For many of us, the holiday season is approaching. The Advent calendars will be kicking off soon, which is great. If you’re into blogging, I’m sure there are some calendars which may still be looking for articles. However, if you’re looking to push some code, let me point out 24pullrequests.com The …
How to Run a Single Test via Dist::Zilla
Last week I was working on a distribution which includes some XS and also uses Dist::Zilla. I needed to edit a single test, but didn’t want to run the entire test suite after every edit. It wasn’t immediately clear to me how to do this via “dzil test”. I asked in #dzil and within a couple of …
MetaCPAN Officially Welcomes Our OPfW and GSoC Participants
The MetaCPAN project would like officially to welcome our summer of 2014 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreach Program for Women (OPfW) participants. We had a lot of interest this time around and some great applications. Our OPfW participant is Pattawan Kaewduangdee and our GSoC student is Talina Shrotriya. Both …
How I Spent My Perl QA Hackathon v2014 (Lyon)
This was my second QA Hackathon, the first being 2012 in Paris. This year, I had a lot of good conversations with various people about MetaCPAN’s role in the Perl ecosystem and I pushed a decent amount of code. A lot of it is waiting to be merged, but here’s the gist of it.
You Can Help MetaCPAN by Helping the QA Hackathon
As I was spending some time updating the list of MetaCPAN sponsors, it occurred to me that we had not listed the QA Hackathon as one of our sponsors. I came to realize that this was a fairly significant omission since, if you run the numbers, the QA Hackathon is one of our biggest sponsors. The hackathon has sponsored …
MetaCPAN Welcomes its Newest Sponsor: GitHub
We’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes on MetaCPAN lately and we’ve come to the realization that we needed some private repository hosting. In the past, we’ve reached out to companies where we had contacts, and they’ve been happy to help. Last night, I wondered if anyone on Twitter …