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Hi there
If, like me, you are a fan of MetaCPAN then you must have noticed the
latest changes to the MetaCPAN ( https://metacpan.org/ ) site. It is the
introduction of new metric, "CPAN Bus Factor". Don't know what I am talking
about? Well then you should read the blog post (
https://www.olafalders.com/2021/06/30/cpan-bus-factor/ ), which is a
collaborative work by Neil Bowers and Olaf Alders.
It reminds me an incident from the past when I received an email from Neil
Bowers about one of my CPAN distribution, IP::Info (
https://metacpan.org/pod/IP::Info ) as he was reviewing CPAN modules for
locating an IP address. Later he published his report (
http://neilb.org/reviews/ip-location.html ) on 8th Aug 2012. You can take a
look collection of CPAN module reviews ( http://neilb.org/reviews/ ) by
him. If my memory serves, Neil also ran CPAN Weekly (
http://cpan-weekly.org/ ), for a while. I did join the mailing list and the
received CPAN Weekly newsletter talking about a CPAN module and its usage
every week. Unfortunately it is no longer active.
A long time ago, I used to be an active CPAN contributor. Unfortunately,
because of time constraints, I'm no longer as active as I used to be. I
even wrote a two-part blog post on the subject - "How to become a CPAN
contributor?" - for perl.com in 2018. You can check out the posts, Part 1 (
https://www.perl.com/article/how-to-become-cpan-contributor/ ) and Part 2 (
https://www.perl.com/article/how-to-become-cpan-contributor-part-2/ ), if
you are interested.
Why am I talking about CPAN contributions?
A friend of mine and fellow contributor to The Weekly Challenge (
https://theweeklychallenge.org/ ), Cheok-Yin Fung, wrote a blog (
http://blogs.perl.org/users/c_y_fung/2021/07/how-i-uploaded-a-cpan-module.h
tml ) about her experience of uploading her first distribution to CPAN. It
reminds me of my early days of struggle with CPAN. These days there is a
lot of help available on various public platforms. I wish her all the best
and welcome to the club of CPAN contributors.
I came across a very interesting blog post (
https://medium.com/codex/how-to-create-awesome-pull-requests-b634e7f00e47z
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