I'm finding it harder to promote Perl now because the Perl community and PerlMonks in particular are huge pluses (along with CPAN). In the past, I would suggest Perl and then mention that if you need help you can go to PM. But recommending a site that was recently hacked doesn't exactly win you points, especially in a corporate environment. So I have found myself hesitating to recommend Perl because of it. I hate to say it, but that "Status of Recent User Information Leak" banner doesn't help -- maybe it's time to take it down or replace it with something more subtle.

I'm also concerned about how many people have the time, energy, and experience with the current codebase to even keep this site up and running. Right now it feels like Co-Rion, tye, and jdporter are holding the site together, and I don't think that's fair to them or us.

For these reasons, I'm having what I call Wikipedia Syndrome, where my enthusiasm for contributing has waned. I think I would feel much more comfortable if we were on a much more maintainable platform.

Also, FYI, the hack was on May 20th. It just wasn't discovered until a couple months later.

Update: I really meant "discovered" more in the "found out about it" sense. Though I suppose if the hackers themselves had not disclosed their handy work it would have remained unnoticed.

Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks

In reply to Re: Making assessments by Argel
in thread Making assessments by ELISHEVA

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