Gabor Szabo

Posted on Dec 29 • Originally published at perlweekly.com

Perl 🐪 Weekly #753 - Happy New Year!

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Originally published at Perl Weekly 753

Hi there!

There was not a lot of action this week, but I had a live session on contributing to a Perl project and then another one contributing to a Python project. There were more guests at the Python event, but we were more productive during the Perl event. Partially as the packaging and dependency management system of Perl is more standardized than that of Python. Who would have thought :-)

I've scheduled a new event to contribute to a Perl module. I really hope that these sessions will encourage more people to start contributing. First relatively small things and then as we run out of the smaller things we can work on more difficult tasks.

If you are looking for a New Year's resolution here is a challenge: Make one contribution to an open source project every week! At the last event I organized we sent 4 Pull-Request in 1.5 hour. If you have not contributed yet then at first it might take a bit longer for you, but with some practice you can make some contribution within an hour. So one hour every week for the next 52 weeks. Here is an issue on GitHub where you can mention your work. That will help all of us to keep doing it.

Oh and if you are looking to explore new, web-related development in the Perl ecosystem, I'd suggest you take a serious look at PAGI

Enjoy your week and have a healthy and fruitful New Year!

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Your editor: Gabor Szabo.

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