in reply to Maintainer looking for a module

Fletch, you make some really good points. I'm trying to go the top-down easy way to glory, when a bottom-up approach is probably more appropriate.

Dragonchild, I appriciate the suggestion and the offer, but it's actually a great example of what Fletch was talking about, since I don't know the first thing about PDF.

Diotalevi, you would be astonished at what I can misspell. Does that really give you a bad impression, or are you just making fun? If it really does give a bad impression, I better start using a spell checker...

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Re^2: Maintainer looking for a module
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Nov 29, 2005 at 16:01 UTC
    You want to know something? When I took over PDF::Template, I knew nothing about PDFs, either. I actually wasn't intending on taking it over. I was tasked with adding a feature to my then-employer's PDF generating library. That feature would have required a complete rewrite of that library. Or, I could do a rewrite of PDF::Template and get its benefits (reports take half the time to write and look better). Turns out that the original author didn't want to maintain it anymore, so I took it over completely by accident. Frankly, some people would say that I still don't know anything about PDFs. :-)

    As for spelling ... if the only impression someone will get of you and your skills is how well you write, I think it would behoove you to write well, whatever that means.

    My criteria for good software:
    1. Does it work?
    2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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