Re^3: New PerlMonks for Perl 6

"talent to burn"

Uh, lemme' think about that.
Ah, got it!
That's why jdporter has -- for the past year or more -- been very nearly the "sole practicioner" of our recent improvements?

And despite the irony above, + + "proceed in parallel"... and possibly feeding off each other's notions re structure.

SWMBO rang the dinner bell. I posted incompletely. Adding some of what was originally intended now... in para marked "postprandial add"

postprandial add: "making this PerlMonks better... well, all I can say is that it's happening as fast as it can."
as noted above, I think many of us recognize that you're making this PM better... but we surely need more talent applied here (or, maybe, talent with more time to apply it). </add>

"It was created to be a site for Perl users, not Perl developers."

Couldn't agree more. Were it entirely guided by the knowledge of devs; oriented solely to their needs; and (implied by the preceeding) developed solely by them, I doubt we'd have the site or community we have today.

But! How many P6 "users" do we really have? How many exist anywhere?
We do see evidence that individual Monks are experimenting with 6 but that doesn't persuade me that we have very many folk who are "users" in thesense used to distinguish those coders who may or may not be highly knowledgeable from those involved in development of a language. We have many of both here, but to characterize all Monks as "both" would probably be unjustified.

postprandial add:

"The roadmap we'd spec would, I think, be generic enough..."

If your recommendation takes wing; if participants share the goals and respect the views of others; if the factori adminstrativi can handle the demands of a rather diffuse group of devs ("spec-ers? mappers?"), this could be a major plus for the Perl community -- 5 and 6 (and blessings on you, those still waiting to upgrade from 4 or earlier). </add>

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Re^4: New PerlMonks for Perl 6 - A Good Idea by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 24, 2010 at 23:28 UTC
That's why jdporter has -- for the past year or more -- been very nearly the "sole practicioner" of our recent improvements? I have often thought about becoming a dev on/for PM but without mincing words: I have to work with painful legacy code all day already; I do not want to do more of it in my free time. The hurdle to contribution is too high for most of us today. The expectation that for something new we'd be using git, writing tests for everything, being sane about MVC and REST, building on the progress and lessons of the Perl 5 renaissance, etc means much more talent would become available and ready to get with the program.	[reply]

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Re^4: New PerlMonks for Perl 6 - A Good Idea
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jun 24, 2010 at 23:28 UTC

That's why jdporter has -- for the past year or more -- been very nearly the "sole practicioner" of our recent improvements?

I have often thought about becoming a dev on/for PM but without mincing words: I have to work with painful legacy code all day already; I do *not* want to do more of it in my free time. The hurdle to contribution is too high for most of us today.

The expectation that for something new we'd be using git, writing tests for everything, being sane about MVC and REST, building on the progress and lessons of the Perl 5 renaissance, etc means much more talent would become available and ready to get with the program.

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