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Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

I’ve added a topic to the wiki page for “topics for discussion” at the QAH: Should we rename this event? Eg to “Perl QA Workshop”, or something like that. There’s a well-established definition for ...

Neil Bowers
Apr 9, 2016 at 1:06 pm
Apr 26, 2016 at 2:01 pm
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Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

If you don't know what I'm referring to, read http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ Leaving aside the IP issue, I think it might be worth considering what would currently happen ...

David Golden
Mar 23, 2016 at 3:08 pm
Apr 4, 2016 at 2:04 pm
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Looking for prior art on conventions for dep-listing

I am currently aware of the Module::Install-specific targets of `make listdeps` (only what is needed to satisfy test/runtime prereqs) `make listalldeps` (everything the metadata knows about) There is ...

Peter Rabbitson
Mar 1, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Mar 2, 2016 at 11:20 am
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Passing some torches

Many of you may have noticed that over the last year, I've been stepping back from active toolchain development. While I will continue supporting certain areas (META related stuff) and hope to step ...

David Golden
Apr 3, 2016 at 10:33 am
Apr 4, 2016 at 1:23 pm
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Found rare bug in Pod::Simple

Hi Marc, & CPAN Workers, I’ve been looking into the final two CPAN Testers fails, and have finally got to the bottom of them. The failing test is search50.t, and the problem is where it does the ...

Neil Bowers
Mar 5, 2016 at 8:57 pm
Mar 7, 2016 at 6:12 pm
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Working on Pod-Simple

A few weeks ago I mailed that I was planning to work on improving things in modules at the head of the river. The first of these is Pod::Simple. I’m slowly working towards a PR with various changes, ...

Neil Bowers
Mar 5, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Mar 6, 2016 at 10:51 am
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Unused namespaces

Hi, don't know if this was ever discussed. Two examples of unused namespaces: 1) Algorithm::LCS Algorithm::LCS MJD 06-Sep-1998 MJD later renamed the dist to Algorithm::Diff Algorithm-LCS-1.04 CHORNY ...

Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Mar 6, 2016 at 2:46 pm
Mar 6, 2016 at 3:46 pm
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Why do we keep using META.json for stuff that has nothing to do with installation

Copying a rhetorical question from #distzilla here, as it warrants a wider audience. The background is yet another discussion of a kludgy workaround where an installation with an older JSON parser is ...

Peter Rabbitson
Feb 27, 2016 at 11:07 am
Mar 13, 2016 at 11:22 am
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Response to Rik's "Credit the first uploader" post

This is my braindump response to https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2096 I'm not clear on what real problems this is really intended to solve, and for at least some of the proposed problems, I'm ...

David Golden
Feb 16, 2016 at 5:04 am
Mar 5, 2016 at 5:10 pm
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RECENT-* seem to have got stuck

See http://www.cpan.org/authors/ Looks like the only one that's getting updated is RECENT-1h.yaml. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness comparative and superlative ...

David Cantrell
Apr 18, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Apr 22, 2016 at 3:20 pm
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Last call for review of Test-Builder using Test2 (Formerly Test-Stream)

On October 29th, 2015, I released Test-Stream as stable. I did this because I felt it was ready, and because I was no longer receiving any feedback from perl-qa asking me to change things. Since that ...

Chad Granum
Feb 5, 2016 at 7:15 pm
Mar 2, 2016 at 10:02 pm
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New maintainer needed for cpXXXan

Those of you who were at the most recent London.pm tech meet will recall that I asked if anyone wanted to take over maintenance of cpXXXan. I do not have the time needed to give it the attention it ...

David Cantrell
Apr 29, 2016 at 4:12 pm
Apr 29, 2016 at 4:12 pm