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Issue #585 - 2022-10-10 - Handle your Pull-Requests, please!
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Hi there! I know you are busy with tons of stuff and I know that as an Open Source developer you are most likely just a volunteer, but so are the people who send you Pull-Requests. It is very unpleasant to do the work, even if it small, send the pull-request and then never hear from the author any more. Looking at my GitHub profile, apparently I created 600 Pull-requests, 530 of them are closed but 70 are still open. Some of them are open since 2011, that is 11 years ago. Some are as small as changing http to https in a URL, accepting (or rejecting) them should not take more than a few second. Finding them might be harder as GitHub does not seem to have a button for that, but you can easily search for them as you can see in my post Listing Pull-request waiting for a user. So I'd like to ask you to check if there are any Pull-Requests waiting for you and try to clean up the queue. Hacktoberfest: If you receive a Pull-request during October, if you like it, accept it and consider marking it according to the instructions for maintainers so the PR will be accepted. (Hacktoberfest recognized 11 PRs I sent since registering, none of the repos are marked as participating. I am not sending the PRs for Hacktoberfest, but it would be encouraging to get the recognition.) Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Jonas Brømsø Nielsen If your CPAN distribution uses Dist::Zilla, this tool might make it easier to set up GitHub Actions and the process might run much faster as Dist::Zilla is already installed in the image. I have not tried it yet, but this sounds interesting as it can reduce the runtime of the CI by a few minutes. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio does not seem to be impressed. I like the concept of Hacktoberfest, but in recent years it seems the useless PRs have gotten out of hand and the whole project is less fun. | 
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by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND) Lichtkind just released Graphics::Toolkit::Color for the purpose to create computationally harmonic color pallets. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) How to use CPAN Digger to find CPAN packages that need a CI. (A new idea: add the CPAN Cover results to the CPAN::Digger page.) |
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by Nicholas Hubbard Where Yabsm stands for yet another btrfs snapshot manager and Btrfs is "better F S" a filesystem for Linux. |
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) It is very nice to see Dave got into (or back) to the Docker image building game. More importantly, I did not know that the Perl Planetarium is hosted on GitHub Pages. I guess I might set up a feed-collector of my own using the tools davorg created. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Mac Address" and "Mask Code" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Please checkout the interview with the latest champion of The Weekly Challenge. |
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by Arne Sommer Great demo of substr() in Raku to solve this week challenges. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Colin Crain As always, detailed task analysis showing the power of regex. Keep it up great work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I can't ignore the questions section. It raises some interesting questions. Thanks for sharing cool solutions. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Beautifully designed one-liner in Raku with exceptionally detailed discussion. Thanks for everything. |
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by James Smith Plenty of different variations on display as always the case with James. You don't want to skip it, highly recommended. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Another cool demo of regex in action. Task analysis is interesting too. Thanks for your contribution. |
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