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===Summary===

[https://www.outreachy.org Outreachy] program provides us two intern for 2022, thanks to the [https://www.perlfoundation.org/ 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: [[User:Alex-off|Alex-off]] and [[User:Stephane|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===

[[Outreachy2022Ideas|Outreachy 2022 Ideas]] - a list of possible contributions

===Archives===

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