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On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/7/22 Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>: > > I wouldn't call it malice, but there is some unwritten assumption that > > perl.org resource will only be made available to existing communities. > > You will not get a foo.perl.org subdomain or a foo@perl.org mailing > > list unless you already have a project with active participants. > > http://www.perl-compiler.org/ > http://code.google.com/p/perl-compiler/ > http://groups.google.com/group/perl-compiler/ That's great! However, it does show that there is not yet a real community around the project; besides you there is just one person from cPanel posting on that list, with 18 messages over 4 month in total. > > I'm just guessing at this, but it makes complete sense to me: we don't > > need a myriad of unused/abandoned sites and lists on perl.org. We need > > fewer with higher value (useful content, pleasant design, actual users). > > That statement makes me sad. Why? Looking at http://debugger.perl.org makes *me* sad. It is an abandoned site with minimal information, in an ugly design that has been left behind by most of the rest of the perl.org sites. It should really be turned into a single page on the perl5 wiki instead. We don't need more of these sites, that are created by a single person, and then left behind when that person loses interest. perl.org is *not* the GeoCities of the Perl world. It should show Perl to the rest of the world in a favourable way, not provide vanity URLs for every project or module related to Perl. There are plenty of other resources to host project specific information, from CPAN to the perl5 wiki, to free services like Google, as you are already using now, so I don't really understand why this is a big deal. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next