HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

Thank you for considering contributing to this distribution. This file contains instructions that will help you work with the source code.

The distribution is managed with Dist::Zilla. This means than many of the usual files you might expect are not in the repository, but are generated at release time (e.g. Makefile.PL).

Getting dependencies

See the included cpanfile file for a list of dependencies. If you have App::cpanminus 1.6 or later installed, you can use cpanm to satisfy dependencies like this:

$ cpanm --installdeps .

Otherwise, you can install Module::CPANfile 1.0002 or later and then satisfy dependencies with the regular cpan client and cpanfile-dump:

$ cpan `cpanfile-dump`

Running tests

You can run tests directly using the prove tool:

$ prove -l
$ prove -lv t/some_test_file.t

For most distributions, prove is entirely sufficent for you to test any patches you have.

Code style and tidying

Please try to match any existing coding style. If there is a .perltidyrc file, please install Perl::Tidy and use perltidy before submitting patches.

If there is a tidyall.ini file, you can also install Code::TidyAll and run tidyall on a file or tidyall -a to tidy all files.

Patching documentation

Much of the documentation Pod is generated at release time. Depending on the distribution, some documentation may be written in a Pod dialect called WikiDoc. (See Pod::WikiDoc on CPAN.)

If you would like to submit a documentation edit, please limit yourself to the documentation you see.

If you see typos or documentation issues in the generated docs, please email or open a bug ticket instead of patching.

Learning Dist::Zilla

Dist::Zilla is a very powerful authoring tool, but requires a number of author-specific plugins. If you would like to use it for contributing, install it from CPAN, then run one of the following commands, depending on your CPAN client:

$ cpan `dzil authordeps`
$ dzil authordeps | cpanm

Once installed, here are some dzil commands you might try:

$ dzil build
$ dzil test
$ dzil xtest

You can learn more about Dist::Zilla at http://dzil.org/