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When I decided to publish my module on CPAN, I have not found good manual which describes all metadata exhaustively, as well as helper modules (ExtUtils::MakeMaker e.t.c.). Perhaps I did not find correctly, perhaps such manual does not exist. It would be very nice, and, it would help many authors, to have such manual.
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Re^2: Advice on the best way to help the Perl 5 community
by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 02, 2008 at 19:01 UTC
    There was a grant proposal to solve exactly that problem in the latest Perl Foundation grant round. It was accepted but not funded. Part of the reason why it was prioritized lower than other projects is that the grant submitter is working on another grant already.

    If anyone is interested in tackling that project, Schwern would be a good person to contact.

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      accepted but not funded
      I wondered about that phrase when I first saw it in the announcement. What, exactly, does it mean?
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        It means that TPF would fund it, if they had enough money.

        The either reject or accept each proposal, and the accept ones are ranked, and the top most ranked actually get the funds, until there's no more money left (simplified).

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