Hello again, I would like to do it, I am not that experienced Perl programmer but I will be happy to help on this, this is a great opportunity. If you all authors agree I would like to help.
Thank you very much, have a very nice day. 2011/9/26 Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> > I got two replies privately from Boyd Duffee and from Francisco Rivas. > We got a couple of ideas together for ways to focus on the important > releases: > > - Pick the most popular modules (based on +-es on MetaCPAN) that have > a new release. > - Pick the modules that most other modules rely on. > ( similar to, or based on the Volatile 100 of Adam Kennedy > http://ali.as/top100 /index.html ) > > - Pick distros where the distro size changed a lot > - Pick distros where the change diff is the largest in percentage of > distro size. > - Pick the modules that did not have a new version for a long time but > now they have one. > > - Pick modules that are new to CPAN > > Other ideas? > > Maybe volunteers who would like to implement a script fetching the above > lists? > It could be a fun mash-up of MetaCPAN, search.cpan.org and maybe the > database Alias has. > > regards > Gabor > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, > > > > I am sure many of you already read about the Perl Weekly > http://perlweekly.com/ > > and are subscribed to it. If not yet, do it now, I'll wait. > > > > The thing is that several people have already asked me to > > add a section reporting about interesting new CPAN uploads. > > On a rainy day there can be 50 new CPAN uploads which > > means there can be around 350 uploads a week. > > Give or take a few hundred. > > I would need to pick 3-5 a week to mention. > > > > I cannot possibly look through all the 350 uploads let alone understand > > most of the modules or even the changes they made. > > > > So I wonder if you have some ideas what should I do or how should I do? > > > > Maybe there could be a few people cooperating on this. Each one of us > taking > > one day and pointing out the 1-3 modules where the recent changes seems > to > > be especially important. > > The we would write a few lines about the module to be included in the > > Perl Weekly. > > > > Maybe you'd have a better idea how to handle this quest? > > > > regards > > Gabor > > ps. don't forget to subscribe to the Perl Weekly: > http://perlweekly.com/ > > >
