Re: Debian Perl Packagers' Wishlist
On May 6, 2010, at 18:04, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been invited by Rob Kinyon and Matt S. Trout (both prominent Perl
> authors, and both who attend many Perl conferences) to compile a list
> of things we in Debian would like to see in Perl modules more often.
> Basically, we want to ensure there is good communication between the
> Perl community and the Debian Perl Group, to make sure that all of our
> needs are satisfied.
Wow. That is really cool. Thanks mst and Rob!
>
> I have begun to compile a list on the Wiki here:
> http://wiki.debian.org/JonathanYu/Perl_Packager_Wishlist -- feel free
> to contribute if you have an account, or otherwise you can bug me on
> IRC or reply to this mail to add it.
>
> This is a great opportunity for us to tell the Perl community-at-large
> what they can do to make our lives easier, and consequently, allow us
> to process more modules, more quickly. Our current process
> unfortunately refers a lot to sending bug reports/e-mails/bugging
> people on IRC to fix things, which gets repetitive, where some sort of
> concise manual/checklist would probably be useful.
>
> Where appropriate, some of these things will be rolled into the
> Kwalitee tests (via CPANTS).
Gabor Szabo worked a bit on this as well. He and I spoke at the Nordic Perl Workshop in 2008 about this and he incorporated some changes into CPANTS regarding packaging.
I wonder if there is some way to more effectively bridge CPANTS and PET?
Jeremiah
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