May 2023 Archives

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…

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