The Debian Perl Group

About 200 members (with and without upload rights)
Maintains over > 2500 packages, vast majority is based on CPAN distributions.
Very good relationship with upstream authors (not the case with a few other languages)
Does not maintain the perl package itself.

Always happy about new members
Open for newcomers
Next real-life meeting at DebConf 13 in Vaumarcus NE, Switzerland (11.-18. August 2013)

Tools

Git used as VCS since 2011 (started with CVS, then moved to Subversion), see also Debian Perl Group Git Guide
One Git repository per source package (previously one big Subversion repository)
mr used to work on multiple Git repositories at the same time.
Commit notifications on IRC provided by KGB.
pristine-tar: regenerates a pristine upstream tarball using only a small binary delta file and a copy of the source which can be a revision control checkout.

Shows versions in CPAN, Debian and Git
Categorizes and displays packages by state, e.g.
- Ready For Upload
- Packages with release-critical bugs
- Newer upstream version
- Problems with debian/watch
- New packages
- With bugs
- Work in progress
Can show meta-information and most recent changelog entries
Current PET3 written in Python (earlier versions were written in Perl)
Also used by other teams: Debian Edu, Debian OpenStreetMap Team, Debian Java Team, Debian Mono Group, Debian Haskell Group, Debian Games, Debian VoIP Team, Debian Python Applications Team, Debian Python Modules Team, Debian Ruby Extras Team, Debian Multimedia Project, Debian XML/SGML Group, Debian Med, Debichem Group, Debian Scientific Computing Project, …

How can we make the Debian Perl Group’s life even easier? (→ Stick to Perl/CPAN best pratices, → Don’t forget about the copyright and license stuff :-)
Why doesn’t Debian have the newest version of my distribution? (→ Stable Releases)
How to contact the Debian Perl Group? (see "Communication" above, <debian-perl@lists.debian.org> is probably the best way for contact by e-mail.)
Can I subscribe to bug reports against the Debian package of my distribution? (Yes: "http://packages.qa.debian.org/lib".$your_distribution."-perl" → Subscribe)
Can I see what Debian patched in my distribution? (Yes: "http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/lib".$your_distribution."-perl/")
An older version of my module is part of the Perl core. Can a newer version be packaged anyway? (Yes)
See also http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide (generic, not perl-specific)