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Old 05-26-2008
How everyone wins with open source software

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT
Recently, I wrote a review of the note-taking application Tomboy. Though I find Tomboy exceptionally useful, I had a minor issue with the inability to create new notebooks from within a note. Within hours of the review appearing on Linux.com, Boyd Timothy, one of the app's developers mentioned in the article's comments that my idea had merit and said he would add the feature to an upcoming build. True to his word, he did. This is a shining example of one of the most valued yet sometimes overlooked features of open source software: it really is for the people, by the people.


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CPAN::Meta::YAML(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     CPAN::Meta::YAML(3pm)

NAME
CPAN::Meta::YAML - Read and write a subset of YAML for CPAN Meta files VERSION
version 0.008 SYNOPSIS
use CPAN::Meta::YAML; # reading a META file open $fh, "<:utf8", "META.yml"; $yaml_text = do { local $/; <$fh> }; $yaml = CPAN::Meta::YAML->read_string($yaml_text) or die CPAN::Meta::YAML->errstr; # finding the metadata $meta = $yaml->[0]; # writing a META file $yaml_text = $yaml->write_string or die CPAN::Meta::YAML->errstr; open $fh, ">:utf8", "META.yml"; print $fh $yaml_text; DESCRIPTION
This module implements a subset of the YAML specification for use in reading and writing CPAN metadata files like META.yml and MYMETA.yml. It should not be used for any other general YAML parsing or generation task. NOTE: META.yml (and MYMETA.yml) files should be UTF-8 encoded. Users are responsible for proper encoding and decoding. In particular, the "read" and "write" methods do not support UTF-8 and should not be used. SUPPORT
This module is currently derived from YAML::Tiny by Adam Kennedy. If there are bugs in how it parses a particular META.yml file, please file a bug report in the YAML::Tiny bugtracker: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=YAML-Tiny <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=YAML-Tiny> SEE ALSO
YAML::Tiny, YAML, YAML::XS SUPPORT
Bugs / Feature Requests Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=CPAN-Meta-YAML <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=CPAN-Meta-YAML>. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue. Source Code This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license. https://github.com/dagolden/cpan-meta-yaml <https://github.com/dagolden/cpan-meta-yaml> git clone https://github.com/dagolden/cpan-meta-yaml.git AUTHORS
o Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> o David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Adam Kennedy. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-03-14 CPAN::Meta::YAML(3pm)