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by Steffen Schwigon (SCHWIGON)

May 6th - 8th, 2015 in Dresden, Germany. Please note, there is a strike by the train drivers of the Deutsche Bahn. Plan your journey accordingly!

There are currently 2 master classes, but if you'd like to run your own training class, you can still propose one. Same with Hackathons. There are 34 accepted talks so far. More are needed.

by Brent Laabs (LABSTER)

Comparing the release of Python 3, the lack of release of PHP 6, and the imminent release of Perl 6.

Although Neil has sent a collection of reports last week, more reports have arrived: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) the French Perl Monger who wrote Act; Olaf Alders from MetaCPAN.

by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY)

Code with some comments.

by John Napiorkowski (JJNAPIORK)

Solid backwards compatibility and the biggest new features is Arg and CaptureArg type constraints.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

The CPAN PR Challenge of Neil has been working quite well and helped Neil to refine his advice on what would constitute a good Pull Request. He points out that if the change is really useful that will make it much more likely to grab the attention of the author and he gives a number of 'best practices' on communicating with the author and making it easier for her/him to integrate the changes.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

Last week Neil proposed describing CPAN and the interdependencies as a flowing from its root, perl itself to the ocean of ... This week he started to draw the river.

by Neil Bowers (NEILB)

What to do with distributions last released in 1995? Should they be removed from CPAN? Updated? Left alone?

by Breno de Oliveira (GARU)

Garu has patched Web::Library::UnderscoreJS and Mojolicious::Plugin::ServerStatus. Interesting modules.

by Ricardo Signes (RJBS)

Traversing CPAN and extracting stuff.

by Caleb Cushing (XENO)

Caleb has stopped using Perl. You can take over modules from him. See more info.

by Dave Mitchell

Dave spent the month mainly fixing issues reported by the Coverity static code analyser, and fixing assorted bugs that were in the main 5.22 blockers.

by Makoto Nozaki

Dead-line for the TPF grant proposals is 15th May.

by Jonathan Worthington (JONATHAN)

Rakudo on MoarVM uses NFG (Normal Form Grapheme) now

by David Farrell (DFARRELL)

A good exercise in using Perl 6

by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX)

Flavio reminds us all that when you put a picture of a person on a slide (or a blog post, or an e-mail), make sure the person does not look away from the text. Either the person on the side should look at the text, s/he should straight ahead. The latter will indicate that the person on the page is interested in the reader.

by Justin Simoni (JJSIMONI)

Dada Mail is an Open Source Contemporary Mailing List Manager written in Perl. This release moved from CGI to FastCGI and Plack/PSGI.

by Andrew Shitov (ANDY)

...ships with the Perl 6 syntax highlighting.

by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)

Great modules released last week;
MetaCPAN weekly report;
StackOverflow Perl report.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

Part of the search.cpan.org cloning project.

Part of the Net::Server series.

by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB)

MooX::Options is an integration of Moo, the minimal OOP framework for Perl and the Getopt::Long, the standard command line processing module. Reddit