CONTRIBUTING

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).

However, 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.

You may need to satisfy some dependencies. See the included META.json file for a list. If you install App::mymeta_requires from CPAN, it's easy to satisfy any that you are missing by piping the output to your favorite CPAN client:

$ mymeta-requires | cpanm $ cpan mymeta-requires

Likewise, 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.

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/