The PTS is a gathering of key contributors to the CPAN and Perl ecosystems. These people spend a long weekend extra every year on building, improving and fixing many important parts of infrastructure most Perl developers and their companies use to do business.| code.foo.no
With "third-party", we usually mean someone not part of an agreement, but who may still be influencing (or influenced by) it. When this party is an Open Source project we depend on, I propose we use the term "second-party" instead. Here's why.| Code = Conversation
With the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) arriving in 2024, software in general is – for the first time – about to be legislated. This means any business who wishes to place software on the EU market will have to comply to new cybersecurity demands, and by implication this will affect tens of thousands of … Continue reading A Vocabulary for a Post-CRA Open Source Age→| Code = Conversation
PTS2023 was this time in Lyon, France; Organized primarily by Philippe “BooK” Bruhat and Laurent Boivin. This event wouldn’t be possible without it’s sponsors, Booking.com, Deriv, Grant Street Group, FastMail, cPanel, Perl Careers, MaxMind, Fastly Inc., Perl Maven, OpenCage, Perl Services, Oetiker+Partner, and Procura. Thank you! All pictures in this gallery are ©2023, Salve J. … Continue reading Perl Toolchain Summit 2023 in Pictures→| Code = Conversation
New EU laws are coming that will affect Open Source. Should we worry?| Code = Conversation
Let’s have a thought experiment. Assume there is an Open Source-licensed Perl module published on CPAN that you care about, and that hasn’t had any updates in a very long time – what are your options? In this blog post, I’ll take a dive into this problem, and use the Geo::Postcodes::NO module as an example. … Continue reading A FIXIT-dive into an old CPAN module→| Code = Conversation
Things seldom happen by themselves, but when they do, there is luck, help and sweat involved. — Unknown If you ever find yourself at the Chaos Communication Congress, you may eventually snap out of your awestruck haze to realise you probably want a memento to bring home. This happened to me at last year’s event, … Continue reading Let’s encrypt, by random encounter→| Code = Conversation
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The PTS is a gathering of key contributors to the CPAN and Perl ecosystems. These people spend a long weekend extra every year on building, improving and fixing many important parts of infrastructure most Perl developers and their companies use to do business.| Code = Conversation
Maintainers and authors are found everywhere throughout our dependency trees. This includes the authors of the tooling others use for maintaining, building, testing, writing and running the infrastructure they depend on. Even maintainers depend on other maintainers.| Code = Conversation
Now and then, it’s good to remind ourselves what “There Is More Than One Way to Do It” means.| Code = Conversation
