I don't know everyone who is involved in maintaining MetaCPAN and I don't know all the details of the performance related issues that have been an ongoing challenge (I believe they have been related to relentless bots?).
In any case, this last week MetaCPAN seems to have been running flawlessly!
So rather than burying a thanks note in a github issue, I wanted to put a public thanks here to all the volunteers and sponsors that keep MetaCPAN (and CPAN) running.
This release includes a number of important changes that we hope will improve stability with threaded Perl.
If you are using DBD::Oracle I would ask that you try it out in your non-production environments initially and perhaps if you are confident there after, in your production environments.
I invite everyone involved in foss Perl projects to invest some time in being inclusive by creating and marking a few open issues/bugs with the label first-timers-only. The first-timers-only label explicitly announces:
I'm willing to hold your hand so you can make your first PR. This issue is a bit easier than normal. And anyone who's already contributed to open source isn't allowed to touch this one!
First timer contributions should very small and easy. But this makes it easier for the contributor to get the hang of the co…
This is not exhaustive at all and is based on github release notifications rather than MetaCPAN recent. If your perl project uses github releases please let me know so I subscribe to them. I also post them to Perl Programmers.
EPrints 3.4.5-rc1
EPrints is a document management system aimed at Higher Educational institutions and individuals. EPrints has been used to provide Open Access to research results, sharing of educational resources and providing portf…
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