Originally published at Perl Weekly 611

Hi there,

Happy Easter and Happy Passover!

In Hungary Easter Monday is the time to go out and sprinkle women with water. Back when I grew up I was not aware that it is in order so they can grow, but whatever. Nor did I know that it was a pre-Christian (aka. Pagan) tradition.

Celebrating Passover, among other things, requires cleaning your house, your car, your office. This is what turned into the big spring cleaning tradition in many parts of the world. I cleaned my GitHub notifications. I had some 600 entries there. Luckily most of them were just updates and did not require any action from me.

During the last week I spent way too much time on sending pull-requests to CPAN modules, but I also got around to improve the CPAN::Digger. It does not store the generated html files in the git repository any more and it now includes the test coverage numbers from CPANCover.

It makes it easy to find a CPAN package that needs contributors to increase the test coverage. I also believe that in most cases the author of a package that was recently released (and thus appear on the CPAN Digger) will more likely be active on the package and thus more likely to accept your contribution.

I recently saw a post asking Why aren’t you contributing to open source? There were a number of interesting answers, but the top most one was focusing way more on 'releasing your own open source', while I think there is a huge open field contributing to an existing open source project without the burden of maintaining it.

Another comment talked about the difficulty with the agreements one needs to sign on the big, corporation-created projects, such as React. Actually only a very small fraction of open source projects are from corporations and only a very small fraction requires any signed agreements. Avoid those. Pick one that does not require any such agreement. Pick one that is not a huge, well known project.

Enjoy your week!

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Your editor: Gabor Szabo.

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