July 2013 Archives

Interview with Chad (Exodist) Granum

After a 2 month long break the Perl Maven TV is back with an interview with Chad (Exodist) Granum, author of the Fennec testing tool.

The interview is 31 min video hosted on YouTube, but you can also download the mp3 version of the audio.

Actually, there is now an RSS feed suitable for podcatchers. In case you'd like to listen to the earlier episodes while driving to work, check it out on the Perl Maven TV page.

Update on the licenses and the repository links on CPAN

In December 2012 I checked how many Perl modules on CPAN have license information, and link to their repository in their META files. Later, in February 2013, I published an update.

Today I checked the 1,000 most recently uploaded modules again:

DateHas licenseHas repository link
December 201282.6%49.6%
February 201383.4%49.7%
July 201387%60.1%

It's a nice improvement, but remember these are the 1,000 most recent uploads. The percantages would be a lot lower if we looked at all the packages currently on CPAN.
I think both of these numbers should be around 99.7%.

If you'd like to check your module, you can use the metacpan_meta.pl 1000 PAUSEID command with you PAUSEID after installing MetaCPAN::Clients. That will show the 1000 most recent upload for the given PAUSEID. Even if some of them were 5 years ago. It will also show the list of offending distributions.

If you'd like to update them, here are two articles I wrote showing how to make that happen:
link to repository and add license field to META files.

About Gábor Szabó - גאבור סבו

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