The Perl community is infamous for having poor websites. Some of these poor sites have been recently updated. Take for example, www.pm.org. And I could single out the personal websites of many Perl programmers, including one famous one in particular, but I won't do that.

Of course you won't. It's much easier to throw out vague complaints without actually doing anything about them.

This is their baby and they have already demonstrated that they have a nasty case of separation anxiety.

You're welcome to think that, but you're wrong. I've seen lots of patches applied to add CSS support, improve XML support, and put id attributes on all sorts of tags, making the resulting HTML more semantically useful.

That doesn't mean things are perfect, but the system works and, as I said earlier, I haven't seen a flood of people knocking down the doors submitting patches to improve things. Thus, the imperfect system stays in place, a few people here and there jump up and down and say "Oooh, Ooh, I want to help!" and disappear a week later, and, every few months, someone complains that there's no legion of highly-paid volunteers working on the site full time to implement the shiny new feature he or she just invented.

Take my personal web site, for example. It's not very attractive, but every day someone reads one of my talks or downloads some of my software. Mission accomplished.

Update: Struck out a phrase I wish I hadn't used.

In reply to Re^2: Open sourcing perlmonks by chromatic
in thread Open sourcing perlmonks by BUU

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