Pull Request Club
Description
Pull Request Club is a web application where users can sign up with their GitHub accounts. Its purpose is to connect
- people who are looking for an open source project to work on, with
- people who want new contributors for their open source projects.
Pull Request Club gives out monthly assignments. Web application is built on Catalyst (Perl), and it has a SQLite database.
Expected outcomes
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Improve landing page: Currently, landing page does not talk too much about how the site works. We can add some graphics, explain it better, add more information to make it scrollable.
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Build a stats page: Currently there is no way for users to see how much action is happening through the site. We can build a page that shows how many users, how many active users, how many repos in the pool, how many active assignments etc.
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Internationalization: Currently the site is only available in English. We want to show it in other languages too, so we need to wrap all strings around a i18n module.
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Announcements: Add infrastructure for showing site-wide announcements. This means creating a new table and adding some connectors for it.
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Mojolicious: If you are feeling adventurous, Mojolicious just released version 9.0. Current framework we use is Catalyst, but we might want to give Mojolicious a try.
Required skills
This differs based on what issue you want to work on, but here’s some basics:
- Some experience with Perl (5) is required. If you have experience with other languages, and want to give Perl a try that’s fine too.
- Some knowledge about web applications would be nice. If you know what MVC is, that should be enough. If you have experience with a Perl based web framework, that’s great.
- Some knowledge of relational databases is required. If you are interested in issues like “announcements” above, You should know about SQL a bit.
Rating
Medium
Possible mentors
Kivanc Yazan <kyzn at cpan.org>