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Articles

• 2014.12.24 Take the 2015 CPAN Pull Request Challenge by Neil Bowers
• 2014.12.29 The 2015 CPAN pull request challenge by Neil Bowers
• 2014.12.29 Bring out yer distributions! by Neil Bowers
• 2014.12.31 Pull request etiquette by Neil Bowers
• 2014.12.31 Pull request ideas by Neil Bowers
• 2015.01.01 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - resources available! by Sawyer X
• 2015.01.01 CPAN Pull Request Challenge: A call to the CPAN authors by Moritz Lenz
• 2015.01.01 Hacker News
• 2015.01.05 The two sides of a pull request by Neil Bowers
• 2015.01.07 What to do with a CPAN distribution by Neil Bowers
• 2015.01.09 How to make your first contribution to CPAN - the first steps by Nitish Bezalla
• 2015.01.10 Always do pull requests in branches by Neil Bowers
• 2015.01.12 More details on the CPAN Pull Request Challenge by Neil Bowers
• 2015.01.12 What should be in a CPAN distro README? by brian d foy

Related articles

CPAN Day was a one-day event organized by Neil, the same person who runs the CPAN Pull Request Challenge, and he wrote quite a few articles for that day. Most of them are relevant to this challenge as well. CPAN Day - start your engines!<

• Specify the min perl version for the distribution
• Put your CPAN distributions on github (this is mostly relevant to the author or if you are taking over maintenance)
• Classify RT tickets
• Acknowledge the contributors
• Check test coverage
• Craft the first paragraph of the Module DESCRIPTION
• Fix CPAN Testers failures on CPAN Day
• Get 'CPANTS clean'
• Add a good SEE ALSO section
• Write a good SYNOPSIS
• Write a good abstract
• Add Travis-CI to the distribution
• How to write the perfect pull request
• Effective pull requests and other good practices for teams using github

And a few other related articles:

• How to convince Meta CPAN to show a link to the version control system of a distribution?
• How to add the license field to the META.yml and META.json files on CPAN?
• Contributing to a CPAN module (using Github)

Reports

January

• 2015.01.03 My First Day on the CPAN Pull Request Challenge by David Bradford
• 2015.01.04 PR-Challenge: January 1st PR by Alberto Simões
• 2015.01.05 2015 Pull Request Challenge: At First Glance by manchicken
• 2015.01.07 CPAN Pull Request Challenge 2015- Day 1 by lesleyb
• 2015.01.08 CPAN Pull Request Challenge: The Pull Request by David Bradford
• 2015.01.09 Finding Fixes for Crypt::OpenSSL::X509 by James Hunt
• 2015.01.11 CPAN Pull Request Challenge for January: DateTime::Format::Epoch by Michiel Beijen
• 2015.01.11 My first Pull request by lesleyb
• 2015.01.11 CPAN Pull Request Challenge (PRC) 2015 - Introduction / January (Plack::Session::State::URI) by Brandon McCaig
• 2015.01.14 PR-Challenge: January by Alberto Simões
• 2015.01.14 CPAN Pull Request: a little patch for January (and a lot more to learn!) by Luca Ferrari
• 2015.01.15 CPAN PRC 2015 - January (Plack::Session::State::URI) - Part 2 by Brandon McCaig
• 2015.01.17 CPAN PR Challenge - January - IO-Digest by Tim Retout
• 2015.01.20 Short and sweet, but definitely a good value PR! by itcharlie
• 2015.01.24 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - January by Doyle Young
• 2015.01.25 January PR Challenge: Clone: adding continuous integration and badges by Zakariyya Mughal
• 2015.01.26 January CPAN Pull Request Challenge by Bear Perl
• 2015.01.27 January: SOAP-Lite by Maxim Vuets
• 2015.01.29 My CPAN Pull Request Challenge for January: Fuse by Breno G. de Oliveira
• 2015.02.01 Pull Request Challenge: January by E. Choroba

February

• 2015.02.19 Analysing CPAN Testers' Reports by E. Choroba
• 2015.02.22 CPAN Pull Request Challenge for February: Archive::BagIt by Michiel Beijen
• 2015.02.24 2015 CPAN Pull Request: February pending by Luca Ferrari
• 2015.02.26 The Moose Slippery - February PR Challenge by Alberto Simões
• 2015.02.26 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - February by Doyle Young
• 2015.02.28 My February CPAN PR Challenge: Template::Plugin::Autoformat by Breno G. de Oliveira

March

• 2015.03.05 CPAN PR-Challenge: March Report #1 by Alberto Simões
• 2015.03.08 CPAN PR-Challenge: March Report #2 by Alberto Simões
• 2015.03.25 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - March by Doyle Young
• 2015.03.31 My March Assigment in CPR2015 - Filter::CommaEquals by lesleyb
• 2015.04.06 CPAN Pull Request Challenge: March done! by Luca Ferrari

April

• 2015.04.05 April CPR 2015 HTML::FormFu::DBIx::Model by lesleyb
• 2015.04.25 CPAN PR-Challenge - April Report by Alberto Simões
• 2015.04.27 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - April by Doyle Young
• 2015.04.30 My March & April CPAN PR Challenge dists by Breno G. de Oliveira
• 2015.05.17 How I didn't fix AnyEvent::ForkManager by E. Choroba

May

• 2015.05.23 CPAN PR-Challenge: May Report by Alberto Simões
• 2015.05.23 CPAN PR Challenge: May done! by Luca Ferrari
• 2015.06.01 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - May by Doyle Young

June

• 2015.06.22 June CPAN PR Challenge: App::DPath by Bear Perl
• 2015.06.24 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - June by Doyle Young
• 2015.06.28 CPAN PR-Challenge: June Report by Alberto Simões
• 2015.07.12 Test failures in File::LibMagic by E. Choroba

July

• 2015.07.26 What I learned from perlbrew by Dave Jacoby
• 2015.07.31 CPAN PRC: July is Data::Dump by Alberto Simões
• 2015.07.31 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - July by Doyle Young

August

• 2015.08.19 I Need To Write This Up To Understand It, or The Epic Battle between Wat and Derp! by Dave Jacoby
• 2015.09.28 Test::Aggregate Failures under the Recent Test::Builder by E. Choroba

September

• 2015.10.11 Last Minute: HTML::Element::Replacer by E. Choroba

October

• 2015.11.01 Net::SFTP::Foreign in taint mode by E. Choroba

November

• 2015.11.18 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - November by Doyle Young

December

• 2015.12.30 CPAN Pull Request Challenge - December by Doyle Young
• 2016.01.02 Mocking a User Agent by E. Choroba

German

• 2015.01.02 CPAN PullRequest Challenge 2015 von Renée Bäcker
• 2015.01.05 CPAN PullRequest Challenge 2015 - die andere Seite von Renée Bäcker
• 2015.03.06 CPAN PullRequest Challenge: Februar 2015

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