Welcoming Repositories Index Perl Ecosystem
Top Welcoming Open-Source Perl Repositories
Top welcoming Perl repositories. Scored by real 90-day external PR merge rates, maintainer review turnaround speed, and first-time contributor success.
Updated daily • Sun, 30 Aug 2026 UTC
Tracked Repos
287
>100 stars verified
Avg Merge Rate
50%
90-day external PRs
Open GFIs
1
Beginner friendly issues
Welcoming Tier
16
S & A Tier maintainers
Ranked Perl Repositories
Showing top 50 of 287 ranked repositories
| Rank | Repository | Tier | Score | Merge Rate | Good First Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | OTOBO is one of the most flexible web-based ticketing systems used for Customer Service, Help Desk, IT Service Management. https://otobo.io/ | S•Elite | 76.0 | 78.6% | 1 |
| #2 | Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig. | S•Elite | 75.9 | 100.0% | - |
| #3 | Double-entry accounting & ERP for the web | S•Elite | 73.7 | 93.8% | - |
| #4 | bugzilla.mozilla.org source - report issues here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=bugzilla.mozilla.org | A•Welcoming | 69.2 | 79.2% | - |
| #5 | MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with your MySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. | B•Solid | 67.2 | 100.0% | - |
| #6 | PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, powerful BYOD management options, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices; PacketFence can be used to effectively secure networks small to very large heterogeneous networks. | A•Welcoming | 66.9 | 77.8% | - |
| #7 | Web-based ERP system for the German market | A•Welcoming | 64.7 | 66.7% | - |
| #8 | Course management front end for WeBWorK | A•Welcoming | 63.3 | 80.4% | - |
| #9 | Translation files for duckduckgo.com | A•Welcoming | 62.2 | 77.8% | - |
| #10 | A web-based network management tool. | A•Welcoming | 61.6 | 83.3% | - |
| #11 | so-fancy/diff-so-fancy18,083 Make your diffs human readable for improved code quality and faster defect detection. :tada: | A•Welcoming | 60.2 | 81.8% | - |
| #12 | Perl/perl52,312 🐪 The Perl programming language | A•Welcoming | 59.1 | 64.5% | - |
| #13 | This is mySociety's popular map-based reporting platform: easy to install in new countries and regions | A•Welcoming | 57.8 | 66.1% | - |
| #14 | openQA web-frontend, scheduler and tools. | A•Welcoming | 57.4 | 63.9% | - |
| #15 | OS-level test automation | A•Welcoming | 56.9 | 64.5% | - |
| #16 | Scientific computing with Perl | A•Welcoming | 56.9 | 100.0% | - |
| #17 | Collection of standard plugins to discover and gather cloud-to-edge metrics and status across your whole IT infrastructure. | A•Welcoming | 55.9 | 65.8% | - |
| #18 | Open control of Carrier/Bryant thermostats | B•Solid | 55.1 | 75.0% | - |
| #19 | zm-build for Zimbra Collaboration Suite, FOSS Edition | B•Solid | 54.8 | 100.0% | - |
| #20 | Server for Squeezebox and compatible players. This server is also called Lyrion Music Server. | B•Solid | 52.1 | 100.0% | - |
| #21 | Dwarf Fortress data structure descriptions | B•Solid | 50.2 | 100.0% | - |
| #22 | Percona Toolkit: a collection of advanced open source command-line tools. | B•Solid | 49.7 | 72.7% | - |
| #23 | Official theme for the best server management panel of the 21st Century | B•Solid | 48.9 | 100.0% | - |
| #24 | Code repo for xCAT core packages | B•Solid | 48.7 | 16.7% | - |
| #25 | Developing an open source,low cost automated system for Moth-Lighting photography | B•Solid | 47.8 | 100.0% | - |
| #26 | Script Repository for Irssi | B•Solid | 47.6 | 66.7% | - |
| #27 | qpsmtpd is a flexible smtpd daemon written in Perl | B•Solid | 47.5 | 100.0% | - |
| #28 | Client for PPP+TLS VPN tunnel services | B•Solid | 46.0 | 50.0% | - |
| #29 | Usermin source code | B•Solid | 44.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #30 | Log4j Implementation For Perl | B•Solid | 43.6 | 100.0% | - |
| #31 | An AI-assisted coding agent that runs in your terminal and supports many providers and models. | B•Solid | 43.1 | 66.7% | - |
| #32 | curl/everything-curl2,262 The book documenting the curl project, the curl tool, libcurl and more. Simply put: everything curl. | B•Solid | 43.1 | 100.0% | - |
| #33 | Tooling to build and package releases for Perl on Windows. | C•Moderate | 37.6 | 0.0% | - |
| #34 | Server for the MusicBrainz project (website, API, database tools) | C•Moderate | 37.0 | 11.8% | - |
| #35 | Read-only mirror of Apache SpamAssassin. | D•Risky | 29.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #36 | Perl::Tidy, a source code formatter for Perl | D•Risky | 29.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #37 | szTheory/exifcleaner2,612 Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata | D•Risky | 25.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #38 | bestpractical/rt1,143 Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system | D•Risky | 24.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #39 | skaji/cpm179 fast CPAN client | D•Risky | 23.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #40 | rsnapshot/rsnapshot3,663 a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss) | D•Risky | 19.1 | 0.0% | - |
| #41 | Web interface for MetaCPAN | D•Risky | 16.9 | 0.0% | - |
| #42 | Various utilities for processing the data. | D•Risky | 9.5 | 0.0% | - |
| #43 | sullo/nikto10,661 Nikto web server scanner | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #44 | creaktive/rainbarf1,204 it's like Rainmeter, but for CLI! | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #45 | sbwml/halflife-list1,129 ABP/ublock 广告过滤规则（每周一早上 8 点更新） | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #46 | Movable Type | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #47 | My dotfiles. My Precious. | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #48 | Proxmox VE's Virtual Machine Manager | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #49 | A static tumblelog generator available as both a Perl and Python version | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
| #50 | My home Kubernetes cluster | D•Risky | 8.0 | 0.0% | - |
How to Get Your Perl PR Merged
1
Check C-Rank™ First: Pick projects with S or A tiers to avoid maintainer ghosts and slow review cycles.
2
Run Local Verification: Ensure test suites and formatting linters pass before opening a pull request.
3
Submit in Maintainer Windows: Check the repository report card to submit when maintainers are most active.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Perl Open Source
What is the most welcoming Perl open-source repository?
The highest-ranked Perl repository on GetMerged is currently RotherOSS/otobo, with a C-Rank score of 76.0/100 and a 78.6% PR merge rate.
How can I find good first issues in Perl?
You can browse verified beginner-friendly issues in Perl by visiting our curated Good First Issues directory at getmerged.abhishekco.de/good-first-issue/perl.
What makes a Perl repository ‘Super Welcoming’ on GetMerged?
A ‘Super Welcoming’ (S-Tier) Perl repository demonstrates an external PR merge rate above 80%, a median first response time within 24 to 48 hours, active review feedback, and clear onboarding documentation.