[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #238 - The QA Hackathon is looking for sponsorship

Sun Feb 14 21:41:55 PST 2016

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The Perl QA Hackathon brings together the lead developers for the Perl
toolchain.
It's going to be in the UK this year. It's funded through sponsorship, so
why not
see if your employer can support it. Every little helps!

How do you think authors and related users should be acknowledged when
looking
at modules on MetaCPAN? This topic generated a fair bit of discussion this
week.

Neil

Events

  Announcing the Perl QA Hackathon 2016
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2016/02/announcing-the-perl-qa-hackathon-2016.html

  The announcement for this year's QA Hackathon, which is being held in Rugby
  (in the UK), from Thursday 21st April through Sunday 24th April.
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  YAPC::NA::2016 Call for Speakers
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna2016-call-for-speakers.html

  The YAPC::NA::2016 call for speakers is now open! There must be something
  <em>you</em> could talk about: Perl 5, Perl 6, the transition between the
  two (either way!), some other programming language, or some other topic
  you think may be of interest to programmers.
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  YAPC::NA::2016 Call for Master Classes
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/yapcna2016-call-for-master-cla.html

  YAPC::NA are looking for people to give master classes before and after
  this year's YAPC::NA.
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CPAN News

  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxvii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html

  Miguel Prz (NICEPERL ( https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL ))'s regular
  lists: Great modules released last week (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/lxvii-cpan-great-modules-released-la
  st.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/cxcix-metacpan-weekly-report.html );
  StackOverflow Perl report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/02/ccxxiv-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm
  l ).
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  What's new on CPAN - January 2015
  http://perltricks.com/article/213/2016/2/10/What-s-new-on-CPAN---January-2015

  David's selection of new modules released to CPAN in January. He's decided
  not to continue with his "module of the month", considering it an
  experiment that has run its course. One worth looking at is Importer (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Importer ).
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  Using lcpan to index your DarkPAN
  https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/using-lcpan-to-index-your-darkpan/

  Perlancar describes the lcpan ( https://metacpan.org/pod/lcpan ) tool,
  which you can use to manage your own CPAN mirror. There's going to be a
  series of daily tips on lcpan usage: here (
  https://perlancar.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/lcpan-tips-001-doc/ )'s the
  first.
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Perl hacking

  Test your Git wrapper against 500 versions of Git
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2016/02/test-your-git-wrapper-against-500-versions-of-git.html

  Philippe takes us through all the different versions of Git that he's
  tested Git::Repository ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Git::Repository )
  against, and shares the scripts he's written to help with that.
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  Programming Quadcopters, Part I
  http://www.wumpus-cave.net/2016/02/12/programming-quadcopters-part-i/

  A video of Timm's talk to Madison Perl Mongers about programming
  quadcopters in Perl.
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  Simplest way of serving local files over HTTP?
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/alex_muntada/2016/02/simplest-way-of-serving-local-files-over-http.html

  Alex wondered what's the easiest way to serve up files using a Perl 5
  module? Several people have chipped in so far in the comments, but I'm
  sure more of you won't be able to resist.
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Perl 5

  P5P Mailing List Summary: February 2nd-7th
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/02/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-february-2nd-7th.html

  As Chester discovers his son Danny has been sleeping with Annie and
  everyone awaits the kidnappers' demands for Jessica's release, the
  governor urges Burt to disassociate himself from his family.
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  Windows DLL Relocation and Perl
  http://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/02/windows-dll-relocation-and-perl

  Andy describes a bug found in the way Perl builds DLL files on Windows when
  compiling with GCC, and how it was fixed.
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  Run Perl::Tidy to beautify the code
  http://perlmaven.com/run-perl-tidy-to-beautify-the-code

  Gabor shows how you can use Perl::Tidy (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Perl::Tidy ) to ensure your code always
  followings your layout preferences, even if some of it was written by
  someone else.
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  Use Path::Tiny instead of home-made ReadFile and WriteFile
  http://perlmaven.com/use-path-tiny-instead-of-readfile-and-writefile

  When refactoring tests for a module, Gabor noticed functions for reading
  and writing files. He shows how you can use Path::Tiny (
  https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny ) for this, and also mentions
  File::Slurp ( https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Slurp ), which is my go-to
  module for those tasks these days.
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  Perl-HowTo.de moved to GitHub Pages
  http://perl-howto.github.io/2016/02/perl-howto-moved-to-github.html

  I can't really tell you much beyond the title, because it's written in
  German.
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MetaCPAN and authors

  the "credit the last uploader" problem
  https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2096

  When you look at a module or dist on MetaCPAN or search.cpan.org, they both
  show the last person who released it. Rik points out that this isn't
  always the most appropriate person to show, and suggests that the
  <em>owner</em> of the distribution should be displayed. He also opened a
  github issue ( https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/1643 ) for
  MetaCPAN, specifically about highlighting when a module has
  <code>ADOPTME</code>, <code>HANDOFF</code>, or <code>NEEDHELP</code>.
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  It takes a community to raise a CPAN module
  http://neilb.org/2016/02/13/it-takes-a-community.html

  This was my response to Rik's post. I think that rather than show just one
  person, we should show everyone who's done a release, in the order of
  whose released most recently.
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  Credit the first or last uploader on meta::cpan?
  http://wollmers-perl.blogspot.co.at/2016/02/credit-first-or-last-uploader-on.html

  This was Helmut's response to Rik's post. He thinks that everyone with
  upload permissions should be displayed, which is slightly different from
  my proposal.
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Perl 6

  A few words on Perl 6 versioning and compatibility
  https://6guts.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/a-few-words-on-perl-6-versioning-and-compatibility/

  Jonathan outlines his Perl 6 will be versioned, including the language
  definition, the Rakudo compiler, and MoarVM.
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  From Regular Expressions to Grammars: Pt. 2
  http://theperlfisher.blogspot.ro/2016/02/from-regular-expressions-to-grammars-pt_13.html

  Jeff continues his series on Perl 6 regular expressions and grammars, which
  has so far been about the former.
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  Perl6 module namespace
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/enkidu/2016/02/perl6-module-namespace.html

  Enkidu bemoans the fact that lots of Perl 6 modules are being created with
  top-level names, such as <code>Chess</code>, and not being put in
  appropriate namespaces, such as <code>Games::Chess</code>.
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  Announce: Mac OS X Installer for release 2016.01
  http://rakudo.org/2016/02/12/announce-mac-os-x-installer-for-release-2016-01/

  A MacOSX installer for the latest Perl 6 Rakudo star release is now
  available.
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  Text, Grammar, Tree - the 3
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/yary/2016/02/text-grammar-tree--the-3.html

  Yary had been thinking about writing a reversible grammar, so you could
  feed it a parse tree and it would generate the original text (that had
  produced the parse tree). Raiph pointed out in the comments that Jonathan
  Worthington has a proof of concept already.
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Grants

  Grant Proposal: RPerl User Documentation, Part 2
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-rperl-user-docu-1.html

  Will Braswell has applied for a second grant: $1600 to continue work on the
  Learning RPerl user tutorial. Add your comments if you agree or disagree
  with this proposal being funded.
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Not Perl

  How To Grow a Development Team ... Hotel California Style!
  http://blog.geekuni.com/2016/01/how-to-grow-a-development-team.html

  Andrew shares his tips for minimising churn while growing a development
  team.
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  Kill Your Dependencies
  http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/

  Mike Perham urges Ruby developers to look to their dependencies, and trim
  them down to only those really needed. As he notes, this is an issue for
  all programming languages.
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  10 golden rules for becoming a better programmer
  http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/10-golden-rules-for-becoming-a-better-programmer/

  Paul Seal's tips on being a better programmer. What would you add to his
  list?
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  5 keys to project success on GitHub
  https://opensource.com/business/16/1/five-keys-project-success-github

  Michael Glukhovsky, co-founder of <a href="">RethinkDB</a>, shares his tips
  for how to make your project successful on GitHub. In his words, "it's
  all about engaging the community".
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