As a new contributor to CPAN with the confusion of how to create a distribution still relatively fresh in my mind, I'd like to start a series of tutorials to help new cpan contributors make sense of Dist::Zilla. I think that the existing documentation for Dist::Zilla isn't really geared toward new module developers and generally assumes a basic familiarity with how to create module distributions without it. This is too bad because as confusing as it was for me to figure it out, I credit Dist::Zilla with saving me from a lot of the tedious work involved in module creation and it helped me create higher quality modules than I would have created without it. So my goal is to do what I can to help beginner perl module distributors to try to help them avoid the pain I experienced in putting Dist::Zilla to good use.

I'm looking for feedback for my first tutorial in this series: "A 30,000 Foot View of Dist::Zilla and Software Distributions". If you can spare a few minutes to read it over and offer feedback, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

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