Meetings and Events

How have NYCBUG and New York Perlmongers collaborated to ensure the continued viability of Perl 5 on FreeBSD?

This will be a report on the progress of a collaboration between the New York City BSD User Group (NYCBUG) and New York Perlmongers (NY.pm) to ensure the continued viabilty of the Perl 5 programming language and ecosystem on the FreeBSD operating system. We'll consider:

• The Perl 5 core distribution and development process
• Testing the Perl 5 core distribution on various platforms
• The Perl 5 ecosystem: CPAN
• Testing CPAN on various platforms: CPANtesters
• The Perl 5 development process in relation to CPAN
• The need for diversity in testing environments
• The NYCBUG-NY.pm collaboration
• Preparation of the testing environment
• Testing Perl monthly development releases against CPAN on FreeBSD

• Impacts

• http://thenceforward.net/perl/talks/nycbug-presentation-20181107.odp

• http://thenceforward.net/perl/talks/nycbug-presentation-20181107.html
• https://github.com/nyperlmongers/nypm-nycbug-associates
• video