Hi Francisco, don't expect the authors to agree on anything :) Luckily you don't need the permission of anyone either.
It would be great if you could create something that made it easy to notice the "important" uploads to CPAN. Gabor On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Francisco Rivas <franciscojriv...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ >> > >
