Excellent.
You are right, the same topics are welcome on perl monks, but one of the things about perl monks that I find frustrating is how short lived discussions tend to be. They flare up for a day or two, and then the discussion tends to fade out (unless they make the weekly best, but even then all that is left are small sparks). Now, don't get me wrong, while this does frustrate me, I realize that it is part of why perl monks is so successfull.
However, my hope is that with the list we can explore topics in more depth and over longer periods of time. Not that I want to have long boring discussions that drone on for days/weeks/months, but that sometimes the quickness of perlmonks is detrimentatal to the discussion, particularly when the topic has a lot of depth.
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How about making it a wiki? I believe a wiki, with the much interlinked structure, would be better to store the purified wisdom. And it would be easier to access by newcomers.
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++ on the wiki.
The nice thing about wikis is that you can carry out conversations on them (with varying degrees of inconvenience, depending on the implementation) and simultaneously migrate the fruits of the conversations into more permanent pages, where they can be organized sensibly. The good stuff doesn't get lost.
Mailing lists are great for conversations but poor for organization. Who wants to search through four months of email to find vaguely remembered good stuff?
Please allow me to second the wiki idea. If we had a wiki that also had a forum module (or could be paired with a good forum system), that would be ideal.
Cheers,
Tom
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Actually metaperl and I discussed that, or the possibility of some kind of Moveable-Type-ish pseudo-blog. But in the end a mailing list seemed a good place to start, with the possibility of moving into a more accessible and organized structure later on.
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