Is he really carping? He's carping about getting a mailinglist, but other than that I see him mostly taking notes as he learns. To me that seems like contribution in its own right, albeit messy and incoherent in nature.

The tired adage that “it's open source so if you don't like it then do something about it” is a sometimes all too convenient way to deflect complaints. There is no entitlement to good documentation any more than there is to the code itself or any other effort on the author's part, of course, but we need to understand that lack of documentation, no matter how good and clear the code, always severely degrades its quality.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: CGI::Prototype - SYNOPSIS shows arcane and heterodox inheritance by Aristotle
in thread CGI::Prototype and use base by metaperl

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