Perl 🐪 Weekly #777 - Check your CPAN profile!
Originally published at Perl Weekly 777 Hi there! In the recent weeks I looked at a lot of MetaCPAN profiles (aka. author pages) such as that of MANWAR . If I could also find their LinkedIn profile I invited them to connect via LinkedIn . (If I have not sent you an invitation yet, then I guess I missed your profile. I'd be glad to get a connect request via LinkedIn.) I noticed that a large percentage of the people still have their @cpan.org email address listed. Despite the fact that cpan.org email forwarding has been shut down 6 weeks ago. That means people will get annoyed if hey try to contact you using that address. You could replace that address or hide it and offer other ways for people to contact you. Either of them is better than having a bad address. In addition, I noticed that some of the links people have there are not working. (e.g. incorrect link to their LinkedIn profile, or to their home page etc.) In order to fix these you probably first need to check and update your PAUSE account . After logging in look for the Edit Account Info menu option. There you can list your email address and you can even decide if you'd like to have a visible address or not. Then you could take a look at your MetaCPAN profile. For this visit MetaCPAN . Login in the top-right corner. If you don't remember whether you used GitHub or Google, don't worry. Inside you can connect them in the Identities menu point. Then go to the Profile menu point and update the fields there. Finally, if you have updated your profile after reading this, I'd be glad if you sent me an email so I'll know this messaged had some positive impact. Oh, and if you don't have a CPAN account and you have not uploaded anything yet, then what are you waiting for? Enjoy your week! -- Your editor: Gabor Szabo. Articles Time::Str - Time Zones and Leap Seconds Time::Str parses and formats date/time strings across 20+ standard formats, with an optional C/XS backend and nanosecond precision. The previous post, Intro