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The Annotated Lancaster Consensus

By dagolden | Published: April 19, 2013

The official Lancaster Consensus document is on Github. This blog post is an annotated review of it. The Lancaster Consensus At the first Perl QA Hackathon in 2008 in Oslo, a number of QA and toolchain authors, maintainers and experts came together to agree on some common standards and practices. This became known as "The [...]

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Perl QA hackathon 2013 wrapup

By dagolden | Published: April 19, 2013

I've been back from the Perl QA 2013 hackathon for a few days and I'm probably overdue to write about the trip. I'm intimidated by last years writeup — I must have been feeling a lot peppier on the plane a year ago. I've also been busying writing up the notes from the "Lancaster Consensus" [...]

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CPXXXAN is SexPAN

By dagolden | Published: April 16, 2013

At the Perl QA Hackathon, I and others were constantly tripping over how to pronounce CPXXXAN — David Cantrell's family of platform-specific or Perl version-specific subsets of CPAN. Some people suggested we pronounce it "spandex" for some reason, but that's already a better fit for Chris Williams' CPANIDX modules. Only on the final night did [...]

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UNIVERSAL::new for command line MU

By dagolden | Published: April 5, 2013

Years ago, chromatic released Acme::UNIVERSAL::new. It was a joke. This is not. Using object-oriented modules from the command line can be a PITA. I have to type the module name twice: once to load it and once to construct objects with it. In a program, that's not huge overhead, but in a one-liner, it annoys [...]

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How I've started managing GitHub pulls

By dagolden | Published: March 27, 2013

I don't like GitHub's pull interface. They make merge commits, which suck. And I want to work from the command line, not the web site. When I noticed that I was losing on the scoreboard, I wrote a quick and dirty script to list open pull requests for a repository from the command line: github-list-pulls. [...]

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