Re: On Not Merging new and old behavior ( was Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue )

2015-05-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
::Builder is actually just fine. So yeah, Test2. Or, if the new architecture does not have the same limitation, some entirely new top-level namespace, like Check::, Trial::, etc. [1] That might also be a data point for saying that a plan ending a TAP stream should not be required to produce

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-06 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
roblem I still have to resolve is what name we put > non-article-oriented things like "The Lancaster Consensus" info under. > That probably fits under Policy::Org::Toolchain::Consensus::Lancaster. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Solve a problem before you become part of it.

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-06 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
cludes in most of his distributions fit under Policy::Author::DAGOLDEN? -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Just because you believe it does not make it so. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #54 (Epic))

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-06 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 08:48:18PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 6 May 2015 at 20:44, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) > wrote: > > > Just thinking that the "Org" intermediate bit is not really needed > > (and ugly). The said organizations are big/important enough that the

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-06 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
al location - static site, easy to generate locally - easy to add/remove repositories (and documents) - any source format can be used, so long as it can be turned to HTML -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Honesty is its own reward. Dishonesty is its own punishment. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #30 (Epic))

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-07 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
ng > contribution systems" thing ) Hey, this is exactly what I was proposing in my other email: aggregating documents that live on specific branches of specific directories. I'll try to quickly produce a proof-of-concept. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) When you create a climate of pea

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-07 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:30:59AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 06:14:57PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > > > > Even some git based workflow that published to github pages with some > > atrocity of jekyll would be better for this task IMH

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-07 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 01:37:55PM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > > The current reference documents are obtained from these repositories: > - https://github.com/neilbowers/history-of-cpan.git > > Unless someone objects, I'll put this live in a day or two. > Becau

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-07 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
nto a static website via my own Wallflower (https://metacpan.org/pod/wallflower). Of course, everyone has to build his own! ;-) -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) None suffer so much in a war as those who strive to end it. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #51 (Epic))

Re: Documenting best practices and the state of ToolChain guidelines using CPAN and POD

2015-05-08 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
> - associates policies with tags > - define desired policy presentation order > - define visibility of policies at the top level ( ie: so that deprecated > policies don't list on the main lists ) > > etc. Good idea! This special config file should be optional, though. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Sometimes only by losing the battle can you win the war. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #117 (Epic))

Re: Berlin Consensus document posted to toolchain-site

2015-05-09 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
tion, *if the module author doesn't agree to the "way upstream" > recommended policies*. The answer was "fork nicely". -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) To flaunt your strength is to make it your weakness. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #25 (Epic))

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2016-01-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
t to judge water quality is that it only > considers the most recent version of every dependency. That is, it > samples the water quality once, ignoring the factory upstream that shits > its pants a coupla times a year. Well, it tells you if there's *currently* shit in the water.

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-04-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
ernet Archive has some old copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20041010044220/http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/ > Then, if you're planning on making a controversial change to module Y, > you have a list of users whom you can warn or poll for advice. Preventing anonymous posts would also prevent some popularity contest and ballot stuffing. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #85 (Epic))

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-26 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
ve been thinking about proposing to hold it in Lyon again in 2017. I look forward to seeing the summary of all the feedback Neil has been gathering from the participants, as I'm quite certain it will give the next organisers many useful clue for organising a very successful event. -- Philipp

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-01 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
e distribution" would basically mean "apply the patch that creates the whole tree". This does not work if the tree does not contain files that haven't changed between versions. Depending on what you meant, that could be an issue for you too. -- Philippe Bruhat

Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

2013-01-04 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
system for the packlist files. > Or the distribution -> packlist index can be store in a well known location (top of the install directory I suppose). > Might seem slow, but on SSDs scanning the filesystem like that is super > super fast. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) When you wander