Bringing Perl5 to GitHub
Even though Git sometimes gives me heartburn, I'm a huge fan of GitHub. The fork & pull workflow makes it sooo easy (and fun) to contribute to other projects. And as a project owner, it is very easy for me to manage incoming contributions. My absolute favorite feature is the discussions that are inline with the code. To me, that is much more natural than talking about code in a separate mailing list.
So I started thinking...what if Perl5 was developed on GitHub[1]?
Moving a large and mature project like Perl5 to a new set of tools and wor…