I'm looking for insight into how one goes about finding a Perl/CPAN module to contribute to.

Bit of a backstory... I've never been a programmer, I've just done Perl due to making my life easier. Now, I write Python code in my day job. I *hate* how Python doesn't have a Data::Dumper (the 'equivalent' pprint doesn't cut it) so I've been toying with writing a proper Dumper module in Python. However, I'm not quite experienced enough in that language, and to put it bluntly, they don't have CPAN.

My question is, for someone who has their backbone in Perl, how do you search for a module with the kind of bugs you're willing/desiring to fix? When I say 'bug', I mean I'm willing to write code, fix POD and write tests.

What's the preferred method to seek out such work?

-stevieb

In reply to How to find a module to contribute to by stevieb

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