On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:45:38 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
On FOSDEM in Brussels on 6-7 February 2010 there are going
to be two rooms for cross-distro talks.
I suggested on the FOSDEM mailing list to have a set of talks to
show/discuss how Perl and CPAN modules are being packaged by
the various distros.
And the talk is accepted in the meantime - thanks for taking this
initiative!
http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/events/dist_perl_cpan
I'd be happy to give a talk about how CPAN modules are being
developed,
how maintainership works, why do perl developers suggest installation via
CPAN.pm instead of apt-get or yum but I'd like to see if there are going to
be people from the respective Perl groups and if they are ready to
give talks on the subjects outlined above?
It's too late anyway but I think several talks on the same subject
would have been a bit too much.
But having one session for looking at the topic from various points
of view sounds really interesting!
Any of you is planning to attend FOSDEM?
Yup, and I know that Tincho will be there too (and from older mails
Xavier and Jeremiah also expressed their interest).
Can we try to organize a little session on Perl/CPAN packaging?
[..] we can have
a nice session and might even make some improvements to our processes
and to our interaction.
Sure, and (despite the bad timing for your talk :)) I'm happy to
share my experiences from the Debian Perl Group.
ps. BTW I'd be also happy to cooperate on the subject of
"testing".
If we could get 1-1 people from each distro explaining how they do testings
I'd be glad to explain how it is done in Perl/CPAN but this is a separate story.
If you mean "testing" in the context of packaging Perl modules for
Linux dists there are a few aspects that should fit into this session
quite good :)
Cheers,
gregor
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