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• Posted CPAN Pull Request Challenge 2017 to jonasbn

  I just received a mail from Neil Bowers asking if I would consider having my CPAN distributions be a part of the 2017 CPAN Pull Request Challenge.

  My undelayed mental response: Well of course...

  I participated in the 2016 Hacktoberfest, I …

• Commented on Give your module a good SEE ALSO section
  Apart from the fact of you flooding my TODO list ;-) I can only say it is good advice. I myself do however have the practice of making a DEPENDENCIES section in addition to SEE ALSO so you can list...

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• Toby Inkster commented on Give your module a good SEE ALSO section

  I rarely write a DEPENDENCIES section, but I did for Type::Tiny, and it's more than just a duplication of the right-hand column on metacpan.

• Gábor Szabó - גאבור סבו commented on Give your module a good SEE ALSO section

  Wouldn't it be even better to have an entry in META.json listing the related modules?

• Neil Bowers commented on Give your module a good SEE ALSO section

  Gabor: it would be a useful addition to have some information in the dist metadata. But where the SEE ALSO might link to various types of things, the metadata would have to be better structured.

  For example, we could have an x_similar_to, or something like this, which is for listing modules which provide at least some of the same functionality. This would enable a [more like this] function in MetaCPAN, for example.

  Then we could also have x_superseded_by, x_deprecated (discussed elsewhere as well, I know)

  Would be even better if it had some more ontological juice, but…

• Ether commented on Give your module a good SEE ALSO section

  Something to remember for all of Neil's excellent posts in this series - if you don't have any distributions of your own that you can patch, you can patch other people's distributions!

• Neil Bowers commented on Give your module a good SEE ALSO section

  Bit of wishful thinking there @ether? Got some nasty bugs you're hoping someone else will fix for you? ;-)