Hey folks,

Some of you may or may not remember me, but I'm Jay Bonci, a longtime perlmonks semi-lurker, and the new owner of Everything2, the PM sister-site. Even though it diverged a long time ago, I'm hoping that things are still similar enough I'm back around actively developing and improving the core engine underneath E2 with a huge push to clean up a lot of old practices and bring the code forward to the modern era. I'd love to see if Perlmonks can get some use out of the tools that we're developing.

I've got a somewhat active repository going at github with our tools. Looking ahead to where I'd like to be:

• The development community should be developing inside of a bootstrapped sandbox machine running inside of a Vagrant virtual machine. This allows us to develop Chef recipes for box deployment as well
• Nodes are stored in git(hub) as XML with ecoretool.pl export, and are instantiated with ecoretool.pl import (or bootstrap). This allows for a sanitized environment and source control of the underlying nodes
• We're working towards compilation of the underlying htmlcodes, containers, htmlpages, opcodes, superdocs, etc that run the site and I've developed an execution environment using some symbol table muckery to make it think that it's running inside of Everything::HTML. This is going to reduce our apache footprint and our database load pretty significantly. It also allows for Devel::NYTProf to not get lost inside of evals

I'd be greatly interested in working with the PM staff to see what tools you can can lift or vice versa. Check out the github repository and message me here or over email on my homenode. The goal is to rapidly improve our body of in-database software and to get out of the performance bottlenecks that are increasing how much it costs to run the site (or conversely, how much capacity we get out of our current hardware).

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