A Perl Projects section would be interesting, but I
don't think that it would be a great success, as I don't see
where it would differ from Freshmeat
except that it is for Perl only. Coordination and releases
have to be done on a website and via a mailing list anyway
(at least I think that this is more efficient than this
forum)...
Releases of the code could be posted either as links
or complete with the code under Code or something like that,
mostly copying Freshmeat but maybe losing the platform focus
and having a language focus instead.
Despite these negative comments, I'd appreciate it to be
wrong in this case and have a flourishing community of people
that release many useful programs as monks :).
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This is a very good idea! I may be able to do what I
need to do in Perl as a sys admin, but I am very, very,
extremely new when it comes to real software development
procedures.
Since there is more to programming than typing
code, we could have a realistic programmers section,
with issues that must be faced in the real world. These
issues would include time table assessment, packaging,
and other issues that are part of a development process,
each with a perl view.
Anyone have any views?
J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org
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Hear hear! I'd love to see the kind of stuff you mention re: a realistic programmers section, especially on the topic of time table assessment...my best rule of thumb for timetable calculation is "multiply the first estimate by something between 1.5 and 2" ;^)
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I am looking for a projects area of PerlMonks. So far, this discussion is the existent of what I've found on the subject.
I am fascinated by, and very enthusiastic about, a peer to peer search engine I came across (YaCy). But I don't know Java.
I love Perl, of course.
I just came home from the Harvard coop book store with several heavy books on Java, but what I feel inclined to do is to create a Perl version of YaCy.
It will be a rather huge undertaking, that could take years. First of all, I have to learn Java, which I've never had much interest in before. I'm only learning it to figure out how YaCy works, and decide if the project is actually feasible.
I thought posting about the project, and giving occasional progress reports here might be worthwhile and interesting. I'm just wondering if there might not be a special area of PerMonks for that sort of thing. It isn't necessarily a collaborative project, but I suppose it could be, if anyone else was interested.
I'll keep looking, but, finding no indicator of the existence of such an area, on this rather old thread suggests the search may be futile.
Should I just start a new thread, or is PerlMonks an appropriate place for such a thing?
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Have you seen Source Forge? Would be somewhat easy to get projects added in there for people to work on collaboratively. But I do think it would be a decent idea to have a 'Projects' type of section linking to Source Forge projects (or elsewhere) and people asking for others help. I know when I see cool projects when I have some tuits I like to help. I don't think linking anything to XP's is a good idea. The incentive should be helping and learning, not arbitrary digits only 'useful' on a web site.
Cheers,
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I quite agree that the purpose is to learn and help other people to learn.
The only reason I mentioned XP was to fit with the rest of the site - after all contributing your knowledge to a project is just as valid as answering a question, certainly more valid than these discussion posts :-)
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