Upasana

I did an internship for Moose as part of GNOME's Outreach Program for Women. I was supposed to convert all stringy exceptions in Moose to structured exceptions or exception objects. This is my first major contribution to a FOSS project :).

Code
This is my merged pull request (a bit late, but better late than never).

Diff stats
If you're interested, then you can check out diff stats here. Caution : You may get lost in that big stats, so better not to click on that URL ;).
In short :
368 changed files with 23,830 additions and 1,479 deletions.

Resources which I've used for understanding Moose

• Modern Perl Book


• Moose documentation


• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol


• Introduction to Moose by Dave Rolsky


• Role Usage Patterns


• Introduction to Moose by Shawn M. Moore


• Extending Moose for Applications


• Exception handling slides by John SJ anderson


• Apart from above, my mentors & people on #moose and #moose-dev on irc.perl.org were extremely helpful

1. Perl.
   Pre-internship : I used it for writing small scripts & solving project euler problems.
   Post internship : Now, I know about :
   
   
   
   • goodness of perl one liners
   
   
   • weird behaviour of Perl
   
   
   • XS
   
   
   • Exception handling in Perl
   
   
   
   
2. Moose
   Pre-internship: I never heard about it.
   Post-internship: I am familiar with most of Moose internals.
   


3. Git
   Pre-internship : I knew only git basics like add, commit, push, pull, merge etc.
   Post-internship : I know some advanced git commands like git rebase, git log (with arguments), git reflog etc. But, I still need to work a lot on my git skills. I realized it yesterday, because of this blunder :(.
   


4. Dist::Zilla
   Pre-internship : Never even heard about it
   Post-internship : Used it while uploading my first CPAN module :D
   


5. Metaobject Protocol
   Pre-internship : No idea
   Post-internship : Understand it to a fair extent, but still need improvement
   

Non-technical things which I've learnt through this internship?

1. Blogging : I think I've learnt how to write a good blog, but I may be wrong, so please feel free to comment on my blogging skills :)


2. Management : I've learnt how to manage work, chatting, eating etc. simultaneously. Yes, I did these things simultaneously :D


3. How to handle newbies : Though, I am myself a newbie, but I've learnt how to handle newbies' questions. I've met so many newbie friendly people in this community, who patiently listen & answer questions of newbies. Perl people, please always stay like this.

Credits:

I'd like to thank these people for their help & support at one or the other point.

1. Shawn M. Moore (official mentor) & Jesse Luehrs (unofficial mentor)


2. Karen Etheridge


3. Matt S. Trout


4. Graham Knop


5. Ricardo Signes


6. Chris Prather


7. John SJ Anderson


8. Florian Ragwitz


9. Dave Rolsky


10. Jay Hannah


11. John Napiorkowski


12. Stevan Little (for creating Moose)

1. Karen Pauley


2. Yaakov Sloman


3. Marina Zhurakhinskaya & Karen Sandler


4. GNOME foundation


5. The Perl Foundation


6. Dan Wright


7. Allen J. Martello


8. Sawyer X (for suggesting me Moose, because initially, I came for Dancer & ended up with Moose)

If any of you (people mentioned above) want your name to be removed from this post, then please mail me at me@upasana.me

A humble request to GNOME foundation
Please keep organizing the Outreach Program for Women :)

A humble question to The Perl Foundation:
Though, I'm no one to question anyone, but still why Perl doesn't participate in every round of Outreach Program for Women & Google Summer of code? :(