Outreachy 2022

Summary

Outreachy program provides us two intern for 2022, thanks to the Perlfoundation

The project title : "Improve the code quality of the Perl code of the Open Food Facts backend and website".

Description

Status: planning

People: Raquel DiPietro, Yukti Sharma and mentors: Alex-off and Stephane

Impact (why)

Improving Perl code quality and documentation is a great way to help the project move forward at a faster pace in the future.

Having less bugs also greatly improves the user and contributors experience.

Having a cleaner code, may also help having more contributions to the perl code base.

Expected outcomes (what)

Improve code quality by:

• adding unit tests to functions that lack them
• adding integration tests
• investigating the cause of warnings (e.g. unitialized variables) and fixing them
• possibly refactoring some parts of the code to make it more simple and readable

Timeline

• May 30: start of the internship
• June 3: planning of the project
• To be completed
• August 26: end of the internship

Resources / Contributing

Outreachy 2022 Ideas - a list of possible contributions