> You have to have an answer to the question 'if it's so great why have > I never heard of it before?' Â Particularly since the people you're > aiming at (/. and digg readers) are exactly the people who judge the > merits of something based on how much they hear about it. >
Kudos to John for putting in the effort to put together this PR, but my thoughts were pretty similar to Ian - it needs to immediately address the question 'why should I care'. It probably doesn't matter to newcomers that the project was coordinated by IRC/mailing lists/etc. Following Ian's structure: * Here's Catalyst! * Developers, Catalyst will make your life great because the technology is amazing, adaptable, fun to work with because it's so productive, and proven - look at all these high-profile projects using Catalyst. * If you haven't used Perl before, or haven't looked at it for a while - time to look again. Perl is hot - Moose+Catalyst+DBIx::Class are building the new web. * Managers, Catalyst is the safe and obvious choice because the technology is proven, robust, and your team will be highly productive and can leverage power of CPAN (and look at these high-profile success stories using Catalyst) * Catalyst (and Perl) has a vibrant and active community, lots of support, and is going places. There are Catalyst books, websites, blogs and forums - you should really jump on board. * (Now you've captured attention, you can stick in some references to the technical detail) * "Catch the leading edge of successful web development - get Catalyzed" etc, etc Go for it John - make us wildly keen to find out more about Catalyst! - Chris _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/