Some people might feel this related:
The surprising truth about what motivates us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Gabor
On May 27, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
So why do *you* contribute to CPAN?
Cynical reason: Because otherwise code I write stays locked up in my
employer's intellectual property. Convincing them to release it as
open source is easier than convincing them to let me continue to use
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
Because if you don't publish your work, you aren't doing science? The
> proprietary model works by putting the smallest saleable innovation in
> an opaque box by itself and collecting rent. If there were a viable
> model somewhere between tha
# from Gabor Szabo
# on Thursday 27 May 2010 04:33:
> why do all these people spend their free time on writing modules and
>uploading them to CPAN?
This doesn't explain the 'why', but: it's not free time. Sometimes it
is my time, but that doesn't make it free.
>Then we - the CPAN authors and
Thanks to you both for your input. I don't think the modules are quite
similar enough to warrant the effort of writing a "wrapper" class
around YAML::AppConfig, but I definitely like the idea of documenting
a migration path from the deprecated to the actively maintained
module.
m.
On Thu, May 27
>
> Is it for the fun of writing code? - You don't need to distribute your
> code for that.
> Is it to participate in the community?
> Is it to get a virtual pat on the shoulder (or a beer in the bar) from
> other programmers?
> Is it to make other people happy by letting them do their job easier?
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM, David Precious wrote:
> On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:44:58 Matt Grimm wrote:
>> The question is, how do I go about "retiring" one module on CPAN once
>> the merge is complete? I suppose the safest route might be to add a
>> big comment at the top of the retired modul
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> This whole thing makes me wonder, why do *you* really contribute to CPAN?
>
> Is it to participate in the community?
>
Nah, I was already participating. (Even more so, perhaps – I've been
distracted.)
Is it to get a virtual pat on the
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:33:53PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> When I teach Perl people keep asking me why do all these
> people spend their free time on writing modules and
> uploading them to CPAN?
>
> ...
>
> This whole thing makes me wonder, why do *you* really contribute to CPAN?
Most of my
On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:44:58 Matt Grimm wrote:
> The question is, how do I go about "retiring" one module on CPAN once
> the merge is complete? I suppose the safest route might be to add a
> big comment at the top of the retired module's Pod to indicate that it
> is no longer maintained and use
Hello,
I've recently become the maintainer of two very similar CPAN modules
with the intention of merging them into a single module. The modules
are Config::YAML and YAML::AppConfig. Both can be used to manage
application configuration files in YAML, and both provide convenient
"get_*" methods to
On 27 May 2010, at 12:33, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> Is it for the fun of writing code? - You don't need to distribute your
> code for that.
> Is it to participate in the community?
> Is it to get a virtual pat on the shoulder (or a beer in the bar) from
> other programmers?
> Is it to make other people
Hi Gabor (and all),
On Thursday 27 May 2010 14:33:53 Gabor Szabo wrote:
> When I teach Perl people keep asking me why do all these
> people spend their free time on writing modules and
> uploading them to CPAN?
>
> I usually tell them because it is fun and that they get the
> appreciation of fell
Gabor Szabo ha scritto:
> So why do *you* contribute to CPAN?
Some years ago I released three little modules to CPAN. There's no great
code in them, but I hoped that they could be useful to other people.
Being helpful to others is the only reason why I hold myself up to
public scorn :)
Ciao
--bro
When I teach Perl people keep asking me why do all these
people spend their free time on writing modules and
uploading them to CPAN?
I usually tell them because it is fun and that they get the
appreciation of fellow programmers - something IMHO
you rarely get in the corporate environment.
Then we
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