Up to a point, Lord Copper. As a Perl newbie, it's very difficult for me to know whether to put a question in SoPW or CQ&A. CQ&A is also very unstructured. What I would like to see is CQ&A in more of a tree form. To give an example, there are 14 entries in GUI programming, in no apparent order. It would be more helpful to me to have them categorised further into Tk, MessWare etc., although I accept that with only 14 it's probably redundant. However, there are lots of posts in SoPW that never seem to make it into CQ&A. I suspect that the amount of work involved is the main issue.

So, let me make a modest proposal. Someone with the time and knowledge enables CQ&A to operate on a tree basis, and creates a "Spreadsheets" top level category. Provided that the maintenance tools aren't too complicated, I hereby volunteer to populate and maintain links to spreadsheet and Perl related content. I say "links", because I don't see any great disadvantage to driving everything internal with node pointers, regardless of where the original node appeared. And yes, I would - unless I was instructed not to - link to nodes that are already in the tutorials section.

Obviously, the first question must be: is my proposal possible? The second: what tools are (or can be made) available? Oh yes, and would anyone else be prepared to maintain other categories? This last isn't essential, although I would prefer not to be a lone voice in the wilderness.

The reason I'm talking about spreadsheets rather than anything else is that I do know my way around them quite well, even if I don't know much Perl. I've also started to build up a library of links for my own use, and formalising the process would not be too much like work.

Let the flames commence!

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Re^2: Anyone doing anything about questions/answers at PM? by davies
in thread Anyone doing anything about questions/answers at PM? by johnnywang

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