Re^3: A Perl Project Page (The Idea Man)

Your enthusiasm is admirable but consider: "I'm not a geologist or miner or gemcutter but it would be great if we could dig up some diamonds. All we have to do is dig where the diamonds are and then someone here could cut and polish them. We'd all be rich!"

Don't lose your enthusiasm but also recognize that a lot of ideas floated in open source, especially around here lately, involve huge amounts of work and often have a target audience at odds with executing the idea.

I don't have the skills or authority to make it happen.

There is no authority necessary for this. The skills are there for you to acquire just as for all of us.

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Re^4: A Perl Project Page (The Idea Man) by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 21, 2011 at 20:40 UTC
There is no authority necessary for this. Well if the intent was to implement this idea here, on PerlMonks, then there absolutely is an authority (perhaps better said as "authorization") requirement. I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^5: A Perl Project Page (The Idea Man) by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 21, 2011 at 20:57 UTC
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical monastic ceremony. Uh... I mean to say, there is no authority necessary to submit patches, to fork, or to fire up your own VPS.	[reply]