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sync with cpan Tackle TODO items

James E Keenan edited this page Mar 22, 2015 · 1 revision

sync-with-cpan: Tackle TODO items

sync-with-cpan is a program originally written by Abigail and added to the Perl 5 core distribution in 2012 as Porting/sync-with-cpan. Certain libraries primarily maintained on CPAN are distributed the Perl 5 core under the cpan/ directory. The core distribution needs to be upgraded periodically to include the latest versions of these libraries as found on CPAN. The purpose of sync-with-cpan is to enable a Perl 5 release manager or committer to perform this upgrade more easily.

There are a number of TODO items listed in sync-with-cpan's documentation which can be seen by calling perldoc Porting/sync-with-cpan from a checkout of the core distribution or in the respository at sync-with-cpan in perl git repository.

Tasks

Address one or more of the TODO items in Porting/sync-with-cpan. Using git-format-patch prepare a patch with improvements and submit it via perlbug to the Perl 5 issue tracker listed below.

Resources

  • Perl 5 Source Code: git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git perl

  • Issue Tracker: https://rt.perl.org

Participants

[Enter your name, email address and IRC handle to become the first participant.]

Track

Perl 5 Core Distribution