hashbangperl

In part 1 I looked at numbers, now I want to look at uploading and the uploads themselves.

Uploading to rubygems is very simple, I don't know or use ruby, but just from looking at the frontpage I'm pretty confident that it would be pretty quick and easy : 1/2 of the main content of the page is a quickstart guide in 3 simple steps. Neat! (I'm sure there is more to writing a good gem, but that definately leaves you feeling confident to give…

So I noticed that CPAN is no longer king of the hill when it comes to sheer number of packages - rubygems took that title mid 2011 (when exactly depends on whether you include dev version and backpan which it lacks).

Rubygems had previously claimed the title based on dodgy numbers, but by the start of 2012 there really wasn't any doubt - that's a hell of a lot of uploaded code.

At first I was a little downhearted and disappointed, luckily I remembered a ="http…

I adopted PDF::Report a couple of weeks ago after contacting the authors, who were happy to provide me with the privs I needed on pause, since then I've created a github repo but not had a chance to do any of the work I've been planning.

Before I start messing around with PDF::Report too much though, I'm doing housekeeping.

- so first task is to apply the patches in the current rt.cpan.org bug queue and close them (2 down, 1 to go).
- also, now that it's on g…

Anybody else interested in starting a perl devops mailing list or other group - there is a load of cool stuff out there, and few people have heard of half of it - would be nice to be able to keep up to date, discuss ideas, etc.

Good example : rexify.org - wish I'd heard of this sooner, would be even cooler to hear about people's experiences with it too

I heard back from Andy Orr and Aaron Mitti, and they were happy for me to put in some work and a fresh release - already created the github repo and outlined a brief roadmap.

More to follow soon