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This is a quick look at the number of CPAN pull requests that were done in February. Not as many as January, but our second-highest month ever. And comparing against previous Februarys, looking pretty good.

Here's the chart showing number of pull requests per month against CPAN repositories:

At first I felt a little bit disappointed, but then when I looked at the chart again, I noticed that January 2014 was a good month as well. Maybe everyone starts the year with good intentions?

So let's just look at February each year for the past 5 years:

Ok, so that looks pretty darn good. I don't feel so bad now.

And for comparison, here's the same chart for January:

Comparing the two months, the January uplift from 2014 to 2015 was 363, or 11.7 per day. For February the uplift from 2014 to 2015 was 325, or 11.6 per day.