The Perl News section *is* unreadable most of the time now. Literally. Because there is no news, thus nothing to read. I completely take your point and in general agree but the update posted was significant, Perl boosterism is more important now than a few years ago, and if we're averaging two pieces of news a week or less over time (40 Perl News posts this year, week 34 of the year)... we could stand a little more before we start stopping down the pipeline.

If anything, this should be a call to slackers like me to post more news. There is a fair amount going around on other lists and such.

Could we slurp in a feed or two, e.g. blogs.perl.org or the news section of the weekly Perl newsletter from Gabor? Seems if we rely on monks to generate news nodes by hand, it ain't happening. And there are people already doing the work to aggregate stuff...

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

I think it's not a bad idea though just having a mirror is approximately the same as having the link(s) above; which is|are already there. So ++ but I abstain from voting on the idea.

I can see that we are not overwhelmed with cool, stable and powerful perl IDEs and I'm trying to create one.

And i believe it's really important thing for Perl community and Perl popularization. This is not about me, that i'm so cool that released new build, this is about cross-platform stable powerful IDE and new features in it.

And I've started and doing this in my free time not just to show that I can, but because i believe it's very important and necessary for the sake of the future of Perl.

Sounds bombastic but that is how it is.