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Postings from July 2006
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:59:50PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > But what is the problem, really? Not enough perl maintainers? Or > are we just jealous that a weaker language has stolen our thunder? Well, if everyone subscribed to this list counts as a maintainer, there are a lot. It's just that very few are active. I think that there's a bigger problem - there's little feedback between the users of perl and the core developers. There's loads of activity on CPAN, yet very little traffic to perl5-porters from CPAN authors in relation to their modules. And very little external traffic apart from bug reports. Which gets demoralising. Everyone uses perl, and nearly all of them take it for granted. As a specific example, when I ask people to test a release candidate - F.A. feedback. And even feedback that late is not great - ideally many people actively using perl for their day jobs or fun tasks would be trying the scripts and modules they maintain or just use against the current(ish) development and maintenance branches. But that isn't happening. So "interesting" changes go unnoticed, until after releases. Which is bad. Hmm. I'm not sure if that actually answered your question. Nicholas Clark