For June, I was assigned Path::Resource [https://metacpan.org/release/Path-Resource] which is a module for combining local file and directory manipulation with URI manipulation. It allows you to effortlessly map local file locations to their URI equivalent. I looked at the CPANTS Kwalitee [http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Path-Resource] report and noticed three core metrics that I could fix to...

For May, I was assigned Compiler::Lexer [https://github.com/goccy/p5-Compiler-Lexer] which is a Lexical analyzer for Perl 5. There were a number of issues [https://github.com/goccy/p5-Compiler-Lexer/issues] available and after reading through them I found an issue with an example that looks like code I've written myself many times: my @chars = split //, $what; This problem seemed straight...

For April, I was assigned App::ModuleBuildTiny [https://github.com/Leont/app-modulebuildtiny] which is "a standalone authoring tool for Module::Build::Tiny". This module had seven ready made issues [https://github.com/Leont/app-modulebuildtiny/issues] ripe for the picking. The oldest issue Add tests [https://github.com/Leont/app-modulebuildtiny/issues/3] simply wanted some tests other than those provided by the basic...

For March I was assigned ExtUtils::Install [https://metacpan.org/release/ExtUtils-Install] which is used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build to install Perl modules. This is, by far, the most core module I have been assigned to date. I was impressed by it's long list of green test reports on CPAN testers for every version and system imaginable. I read through...

I found this awesome service [https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html] provided by Qualsys SSL Labs. I had done a fair amount of research into strong SSL configuration after Heartbleed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed], POODLE [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE], etc. so I was very interested to see how my system would perform. My server did very well...