Re^6: Open sourcing perlmonks

If you want to get things done ... You make the right friends ... It's just like anything else

Perhaps your experience is different than mine, but I haven't gotten where I am in life by making the "right friends".

Which major Perl site have you run, by the way? ... when you actually do it you'll find out things aren't so easy.

I don't expect it to be easy, especially when there are so few involved.

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Re^7: Open sourcing perlmonks by adrianh (Chancellor) on May 29, 2005 at 09:31 UTC
Perhaps your experience is different than mine, but I haven't gotten where I am in life by making the "right friends". There was the rest of the sentence y'know: "find out who's involved with it, and then make the improvements". Part of the latter is involved with making the "right friends". Knowing the community. Knowing what works and doesn't work. Knowing what's been tried and not tried. That's what the making the "right friends" is all about. Sitting away from the developer community complaining will not get any changes made. Getting involved with the developer community and writing some code will.	[reply]

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Re^7: Open sourcing perlmonks
by adrianh (Chancellor) on May 29, 2005 at 09:31 UTC

Perhaps your experience is different than mine, but I haven't gotten where I am in life by making the "right friends".

There was the rest of the sentence y'know: "find out who's involved with it, and then make the improvements". Part of the latter is involved with making the "right friends". Knowing the community. Knowing what works and doesn't work. Knowing what's been tried and not tried. That's what the making the "right friends" is all about.

Sitting away from the developer community complaining will not get any changes made. Getting involved with the developer community and writing some code will.

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