Leo Lapworth wrote:
Hi,
Please note this is cross posted.
Several of the QA people have kindly said they will help with updating
http://qa.perl.org/.
3) Phalanx
Though in one sense it pains me to say it, Phalanx does not need to be a
major tab. It can be demoted to a link somewhere.
The first version of Phalanx was put forth by Andy Lester in 2003, but
his bigger pitch for it came at YAPC::NA::2004 in Buffalo. Over the
next year four of us in New York City 'phalanx'-ed HTML::Template
(patches ultimately accepted) and Text::Template (patches never
accepted). Mark Prewitt and I spoke about this at YAPC in Toronto the
following year.
I believe there was one other group of hoplites active in some other
city (Chicago?), but I don't know whether that ultimately was reflected
in updated code on CPAN.
I learned a tremendous amount about testing, code coverage and writing
testable code from the Phalanx project -- knowledge which has served me
well, particularly in the Parrot project. The approach to 'phalanx'-ing
a module can be applied by anyone (and I'm happy to mentor people on
that). But, to the best of my knowledge, there's no active Phalanx
project per se at the present time. So it doesn't need to be quite so
prominent on qa.perl.org.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
