Comments on: Contributing to CPAN: PAUSE Id, Bug Tracking, and Code Repositories

By: Yanick Champoux

Yanick Champoux — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:25 +0000

Yup, when you know where to send patches, the Perl ecosystem always has been fairly easy to enter. But the arrival of Git simplified it to even greater levels. By now, sending a patch to any module can be as simple as (I hope the comment doesn’t murder the formatting here):

$ git cpan-init Some::Module
$ git checkout -b mypatch
…hack hack hack…
$ git rebase -i cpan
$ git cpan-sendpatch

For more details, see my original Git::CPAN::Patch blog entry (http://use.perl.org/~Yanick/journal/38180), and — if you subscribe to it — the related article in the Perl Review (http://theperlreview.com/, edition 5.1).

By: Yanick Champoux

Yanick Champoux — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:53:09 +0000

Good point. A little more than a year ago, I gave it a whirl and, although it was very promising, it wasn’t exactly scratching the itch in the way I wanted — so I ended up trying to come up with my own solution (http://use.perl.org/~Yanick/journal/37852).

But I just gave a second look at Zilla over the week-end and, by Joves, it’s getting there. I’ll give it a new try, but something tells me I’ll soon be kissing poor Dist::Release goodbye and join the enemy camp. :-)

By: the wanderer

the wanderer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:32:07 +0000

don’t forget Dist::Zilla http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Dist-Zilla-1.100160/lib/Dist/Zilla.pm

By: Tim Procter

Tim Procter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:16:55 +0000

Great Job. I was looking forward to this post. The biggest piece of the puzzle I was missing was PAUSE.

By: Brad Hudson

Brad Hudson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:01:53 +0000

Thanks Yanick. That really simplifies and clarifies the process. I had no idea it was all so simple.