Welcome new contributors with the first-timers-only tag

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…

Early May Perl Software Releases 2023

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…

Hours left to donate to The Perl and Raku Foundation in the US 2022 tax yer

There are still a few hours left to donate to The Perl Foundation in the US 2022 tax year. Please support the great work the foundation does to support Perl and Raku

https://www.perlfoundation.org/donate.html

An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms

Perl has been around for a couple of years longer than Python and Linux. Perl 5 was released in 1993, the same year as FreeBSD and NetBSD.

In the 90's for Open Source projects the "community platforms" where Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists run on Listserv or Majordomo (Mailman didn't show up until 1999). IRC was used for text based chat but without SSL!. CVS was the open source version control system of choice or you might have been unlucky enough to use Visual Source Safe at work, whilst Subversion wouldn't show up until 2000.

But the 90's are more than 20 years in the p…

Buy a Perl 5.36 mug and support The Perl Foundation

Mugs celebrating Perl 5.36 are now available at The Perl Store with all proceeds going to The Perl Foundation

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