Hi Tom, My vote would be for someone to take on the task of writing "mailing-list" software in Raku/Perl6, and/or writing "mailing-list-archiving" software (e.g. an NNTP server) in Raku/Perl6. First of all, for your group this would be a relatively-high profile project, with the potential for hundreds or even thousands of companies adopting such a module for their own institutional or company needs.
Regarding the "archiving" module in particular, you could see how the Perl mailing lists are archived, and easily imagine how they might be improved. There would be a need to access data from a database, filter out spam, organize the data by date and/or thread, and serve up the data in a web-accessible format. Selfishly, I would love to see a searchable archive of every Perl6/Raku email ever written. I've communicated with Ask Bjorn Hansen about the Perl software presently running the NNTP archive (www.nntp.perl.org), in particular the Perl6-Users mailing list. Ask Bjorn Hansen says the NNTP archive runs on Colobus which is written in Perl, with commits going all the way back to 2001. So why not rewrite it in Raku/Perl6?? In particular, I was hoping to see a better "subject threading" algorithm, since with Colobus (on occasion) emails from different "eras" are lumped together in the same thread (example: emails from 2010 showing up in Sept. 2019 threads). I don't know if your group has an interest in writing a full-blown NNTP server, but below are resources for Raku/Perl6, Python, and R. You can decide for yourself if the Raku/Perl6 resources need improving: Raku/Perl6: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/ https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/ https://trainedmonkey.com/projects/colobus/ https://github.com/abh/colobus Python: https://www.python.org/community/lists/ https://mail.python.org/archives/ https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo R: https://www.r-project.org/mail.html https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo https://r.789695.n4.nabble.com HTH, Bill. On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:59 AM Tom Blackwood <tom.blkw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, I'll check it out! > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:50 PM JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Try something in the most wanted repo: >> https://github.com/perl6/perl6-most-wanted/blob/master/most-wanted/modules.md >> That way you will learn _and_ help the community. >> >> El vie., 6 dic. 2019 a las 8:11, Tom Blackwood (<tom.blkw...@gmail.com>) >> escribió: >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> My team most time developed with ruby language. >>> These recent days we took time reading the book Learning Perl 6. >>> Then we consider to take an actual project to learn more deeply. >>> What project do you suggest for us to get involve into? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tom >> >> >> >> -- >> JJ
