The Perl Maintenance Project
1.
Project Description
We maintain everything perlish in gentoo.
Perl.org
2.
Developers
| Developer |
Nickname |
Role |
| Christian Hartmann |
ian |
Member |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
3.
Recruitment
We are currently looking for users interested in helping the project with
the following jobs:
General package maintainer
- Job description
-
General perl package maintainer to help out with managing the herd.
Revision bumping, bug filing/fixing, stabilizing, updating ebuilds per
eclass or syntax changes, etc.
- Requirements
-
Experience with Perl on Linux, ideally Gentoo.
- Contact
-
perl@gentoo.org
Perl core maintainer
- Job description
-
Perl core package maintainer to help out with the core perl packages
(dev-lang/perl and sys-devel/libperl). Revision bumping, handling
security bugs, patching packages to play nice with Gentoo, following
upstream to handle changes and updates in a timely manner.
- Requirements
-
Experience with perl on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Knowledge of C and perl.
Experience with patching software.
- Contact
-
perl@gentoo.org
4.
Subprojects
The Perl
project has the following subprojects:
| Project |
Lead |
Description |
| g-cpan |
Robin H. Johnson |
Build perl modules that portage keeps track of
|
| perl-cleaner |
perl-herd |
Clean up those ph files and rebuild all your broken apps after a new perl
|
| up2date-ng |
Christian Hartmann |
Tool to check for updates on cpan (Ebuild vs CPAN)
|
| perl-info |
Christian Hartmann |
Tool to gather relevant perl data; 'emerge --info' for perl
|
5.
Resources
Resources offered by the
Perl
project are:
6.
Herds
The Perl
project maintains the following herds:
| Herd |
Members |
Description |
| perl |
tove |
Perl-related packages |
|
