The CPAN Pull Request Challenge

I&#x27;m in.<p>Some years ago I tried to motivate people to contribute to Perl 6, and found that while many had some lingering interest in doing so, they needed some steering.<p>This was hard for me to do, because usually in Open Source communities, you aren&#x27;t supposed to tell people what to do; they are free to chose the occupation after all. But I found that it worked very well.<p>So I think the CPAN Pull Request Challenge is a very good approach to steer people to particular projects, without causing too much work for those who steer. At least it&#x27;s a very good experiment to try.

Count me in! The last time I wrote Perl, the Camel Book was a <i>thing</i> and I thought it was cool to have the least number of digits in your slashdot id as possible.<p>I find it pretty fun to try to modify code that lives in a world that I&#x27;m largely not part of, this is a nice little impetus!

I&#x27;m in. People around here are sometimes cynical of Perl, but there&#x27;s a lot of high quality code on CPAN that definitely shouldn&#x27;t fall by the wayside.

What a fantastic idea. I think this will really speak to those of us that may need a little nudge before feeling comfortable. I&#x27;ve dusted off my PAUSE ID and signed up.<p>Does anyone know of any other langs&#x2F;communities that have tried something like this? This seems like a great idea to learn and contribute.

Add don&#x27;t forget to use <a href="http://www.cpantesters.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cpantesters.org&#x2F;</a> so you can see how your test cases run on a variety of platforms.

You never know when that pull request could turn into co-maintainer permissions. ;-) That happened to me with 3 packages last month!

I am in, nice iniciative. I&#x27;ve just released <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::BeLike::FIBO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metacpan.org&#x2F;pod&#x2F;Task::BeLike::FIBO</a> and I&#x27;m quite glad of my minimal style. Perl is for servers like JavaScript for the web, it is obiquitous. I like other languages too, but, Perl is really fun specially for the community, a great one!

I signed up. Sounds like a good opportunity for those who want to help, but don&#x27;t quite know where to get started.

In as well. Hope I don&#x27;t get something like SOAP::WSDL :)

1. Join the challenge 2. Get any module assigned 3. Check the gaps in it&#x27;s test coverage using <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::Cover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metacpan.org&#x2F;pod&#x2F;Devel::Cover</a> 4. MOAR TESTS 5. Profit!

I&#x27;m interested, but I don&#x27;t know Perl. Is knowing Perl a hard prerequisite?

Sounds great, is there anything like this for php?

I&#x27;m in. Been looking for an excuse to use my budding perl-fu.

Sounds cool, I&#x27;d do something like this if it was in Ruby. Haven&#x27;t used perl in several years, not sure I&#x27;d be much help

absolutely cpancited! should probably come up with a more taggable acronym for this

Sounds desperate.

&gt; The goal is to help others, possibly learn something, and hopefully have a bit of fun<p>Seems like it shouldn&#x27;t be limited to CPAN modules.