Meetings and Events
Ensuring Perl's Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration,
James E Keenan, Andrew Villano
2018-11-07 @
17:30 EST (22:30 UTC) -
Suspenders, 108 Greenwich St, 2nd Floor
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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