CONTRIBUTING

Thank you for considering contributing to this distribution.  This file

contains instructions that will help you work with the source code.

PLEASE NOTE that if you have any questions or difficulties, you can reach the

maintainer(s) through the bug queue described later in this document

(preferred), or by emailing the releaser directly. You are not required to

follow any of the steps in this document to submit a patch or bug report;

these are just recommendations, intended to help you (and help us help you

faster).

The distribution is managed with Dist::Zilla (https://metacpan.org/release/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).

However, you can run tests directly using the 'prove' tool:

  $ prove -l

  $ prove -lv t/some_test_file.t

  $ prove -lvr t/

In most cases, 'prove' is entirely sufficent for you to test any

patches you have.

You may need to satisfy some dependencies.  The easiest way to satisfy

dependencies is to install the last release -- this is available at

https://metacpan.org/release/Module-Metadata

If you use cpanminus, you can do it without downloading the tarball first:

  $ cpanm --reinstall --installdeps --with-recommends Module::Metadata

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 --missing`

or

  $ dzil authordeps --missing | cpanm

You should then also install any additional requirements not needed by the

dzil build but may be needed by tests or other development:

  $ cpan `dzil listdeps --author --missing`

or

  $ dzil listdeps --author --missing | cpanm

Or, you can use the 'dzil stale' command to install all requirements at once:

  $ cpan Dist::Zilla::App::Command::stale

  $ cpan `dzil stale --all`

or

  $ cpanm Dist::Zilla::App::Command::stale

  $ dzil stale --all | cpanm

You can also do this via cpanm directly:

  $ cpanm --reinstall --installdeps --with-develop --with-recommends Module::Metadata

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

  $ dzil build

  $ dzil test

  $ dzil test --release

  $ dzil xtest

  $ dzil listdeps --json

  $ dzil build --notgz

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

The code for this distribution is hosted at GitHub. The repository is:

https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Module-Metadata

You can submit code changes by forking the repository, pushing your code

changes to your clone, and then submitting a pull request. Detailed

instructions for doing that is available here:

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request

If you have found a bug, but do not have an accompanying patch to fix it, you

can submit an issue report here:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Module-Metadata

or via email: bug-Module-Metadata@rt.cpan.org

There is also a mailing list available for users of this distribution, at

http://lists.perl.org/list/cpan-workers.html

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at

irc://irc.perl.org/#toolchain

If you send me a patch or pull request, your name and email address will be

included in the documentation as a contributor (using the attribution on the

commit or patch), unless you specifically request for it not to be.  If you

wish to be listed under a different name or address, you should submit a pull

request to the .mailmap file to contain the correct mapping.

This file was generated via Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GenerateFile::FromShareDir 0.012 from a

template file originating in Dist-Zilla-PluginBundle-Author-ETHER-0.117.