The Perl Maintenance Project

Michael Cummings Author
Christian Hartmann Editor

Updated April 25, 2006

1. Project Description

We maintain everything perlish in gentoo.

2. Developers

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:

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

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

Job description: g-cpan is a tool written in perl. It generates ebuilds and installs perl modules and bundles from CPAN on-the-fly. The sources are in the g-cpan repository.
Requirements: Experience in perl and packaging perl modules.
Contact: perl@gentoo.org

4. Subprojects

The Perl project has the following subprojects:

Project	Lead	Description
g-cpan	perl-herd	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	ian, yuval	Perl-related packages