Here's an idea. Take your weakness (an influx of programs of dubious quality), your goal (to improve the level of Perl programmers and of available programs), and turn the weakness into a strength.

Offer submitters the opportunity to have their programs reviewed by a qualified programmer. Given the number of "code review" questions here and the Ask-a-Guru sessions at TPC, there may very well be a market for this.

This provides review of scripts and some guarantee of quality and safety. Besides that, if the reviewer put his or her notes online, it would be a Learning Experience similar to Dominus' Red Flags Program Repair Shop series.

(Given the number of underemployed Perl hackers out there, you could probably find several people qualified to write articles or reviews for a nominal fee. It might not be hard to find an editor either. Drop me a /msg.)

With your levels of traffic and influence, it would be a shame not to seize the opportunity.

In reply to Re: Should it live or die? by chromatic
in thread Should it live or die? by Jazz

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