On several occasions in the past I've wanted to post nodes to the Code section of Perlmonks and been left scratching my head over where my particular contribution belongs. It doesn't seem to fit in any of the existing categories except for "Utility Scripts", which seems to me to be such a broad catch-all that it sort of defeats the concept of categorization in the first place. Or of course "Miscellaneous" - same problem. (I am not saying that we shouldn't have a "Miscellaneous" category, just that if there's a code focus that ought to be of broad interest to a lot of Monks, it ought to be split out from a catch-all like "Miscellaneous").

Many of my contributions to Perlmonks, code-wise, concern the Perl installation itself (showPerlDirConfig): the exploration of it for the education of newer Perl users, the management of it by administrators, and the creation of it when building a new Perl from the source kit.

Since this is Perlmonks, it seems to me that is would make sense to allocate a Catacomb Category specifically for code (modules, utilities, tools) relating to the Perl Installation itself. I propose that this new code category be Perl Installation Admin unless someone comes up with a better (shorter?) counter-proposal.

The existing categories are:

Thanks for your consideration and comment on this proposal.

    Soren A / somian / perlspinr / Intrepid

Edit 1:

mispelling of "catacomb" in one place {blush}.
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Re: Petition for addition of new Catacomb Category
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 10, 2004 at 03:27 UTC
    To propose a new category, all you need to do is type it in when you submit code to code catacombs. When whomever manages the section sees a category fit to exist, it will be made an official category. Thats how it works.
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