Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote: > Ok, I've done this. Authors get an email the first time someone posts a > note to their modules, and the email includes a subscribe link. Author > who subscribe get further emails, which always include an unsubscribe > link.

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Ovid
--- Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, by now I have already received several bounces because > some > authors don't have a valid email address... And I'm sure there are folks like me whose [EMAIL PROTECTED] email goes into a black hole. There's just too much spam in it

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, I've done this. Authors get an email the first time someone posts a > note to their modules, and the email includes a subscribe link. Author > who subscribe get further emails, which always include an

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
Smylers wrote: Ivan Tubert-Brohman writes: I'm also considering the possibility of sending automated emails, similar to what rt.cpan.org does. However, I was still unsure about whether to do it opt-in or opt-out (or no-option ;-). Opt-out (or no-option) would irritate far too many people (not

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:37:05AM +, Smylers wrote: > Opt-out (or no-option) would irritate far too many people (not > necessarily rationally, but it would). But people can only opt in if > they know it exists to opt in to. Perhaps you could send one mail once, > the first time each author h

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-12 Thread Smylers
Ivan Tubert-Brohman writes: > I'm happy to listen to your suggestions; AnnoCPAN is a work in > progress and I'm still adding features and fixing bugs. Thanks Ivan for your work on this. > I'm also considering the possibility of sending automated emails, > similar to what rt.cpan.org does. Howeve

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-11 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
Adrian Howard wrote: On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the cod

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Smylers
Adam Kennedy writes: > Adrian Howard wrote: > > > > http://www.annocpan.org/~ADAMK/ > Nope... > > PPI (1 notes; latest 2005-07-04 ) Yup. > Click on PPI... > > List of 9 versions of PPI, no information on the notes. Given that one of the advertised features of AnnoCpan is how it automatic

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
Adrian Howard wrote: On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
Adrian Howard wrote: On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
PS. An AnnoCPAN tip: Notice that if you are an author, you can subscribe to all comments on your modules: http://www.annocpan.org/~MARKSTOS/recent.rss I don't _want_ to subscribe to my feed. RSS would be just another distration in my life. What I'd just like, every 3 months or so when I've go

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Jeff Bisbee
* Adrian Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://www.annocpan.org/~ADAMK/ > > Complete with RSS feed :-) Sweet! This should be noted more predominately on the site :) -- Jeff Bisbee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / jbisbee.com

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adrian Howard
On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the code. [snip] htt

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: But not with the actual AUTHOR of the module apparently. From what I can tell, this does nothing at all to help the author of the modules. There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Nik Clayton
Michael G Schwern wrote: So where's the RSS push interface so I don't have to go checking 2983 RSS feeds every day to see if there's anything interesting? Call me a snob, but O(1) is still better than O(n). PS Its entirely possible I'm just ignorant. www.bloglines.com for an example of somet

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: Example: http://www.annocpan.org/dist/Net-ICal-0.15/lib/Net/ICal.pm I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN d

OT: integrating RSS with mail readers (was: Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea)

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-07-08, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PS. An AnnoCPAN tip: Notice that if you are an author, you can subscribe >> to all comments on your modules: >> http://www.annocpan.org/~MARKSTOS/recent.rss > > Not knowing anything about RSS I put the URL into Firefox and it asked me

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:17:22PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > Schwern wrote: > > The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an > > option to subscribe to the "recent notes" feed. > > > > A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and > > live in our MTAs not our web bro

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread demerphq
Schwern wrote: > The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an > option to subscribe to the "recent notes" feed. > > A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and > live in our MTAs not our web browsers. Did you see Tim O'Reilly's note: http://www.oreillynet.com/pu

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:24:45PM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: > I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to > close the loop with the author to integrate updates. > > CPAN documentation could be stuffed into a kwiki wiki using the POD > format feature. > > Users could a

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 16:24:45 +, Mark Stosberg wrote: > I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to > close the loop with the author to integrate updates. > > CPAN documentation could be stuffed into a kwiki wiki using the POD > format feature. It's been done =)