Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-27 Thread David Landgren
Mark Stosberg wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:48:28AM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possib

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-27 Thread Adrian Howard
On 24 Apr 2005, at 15:48, John Siracusa wrote: What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possible to try them so I can get feedba

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-25 Thread James E Keenan
John Siracusa wrote: I tried posting to comp.lang.perl.announce once, but didn't get any response. Not only did you *try* posting, you did post! http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=Siracusa&safe=images&as_ugroup=comp.lang.perl.announce Maybe not many people read that group these days? Th

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread John Siracusa
On 4/24/05 5:12 PM, Smylers wrote: > John Siracusa writes: >> The first is my object/relational database mapper thingie. ... The >> second is an object-oriented interface to HTML, with a focus on HTML >> forms and fields. I developed this one because there was nothing like >> it in CPAN at all (wh

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Smylers
John Siracusa writes: > The first is my object/relational database mapper thingie. ... The > second is an object-oriented interface to HTML, with a focus on HTML > forms and fields. I developed this one because there was nothing like > it in CPAN at all (which surprised me). Ah, now you mention

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Andy Lester
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:46:25PM -0400, John Siracusa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So what are the high points? Why should someone use yours instead of > > Class::DBI? Or even switch from Class::DBI? > > Assuming I do that, there's still the question of venue. How/why/where will > people r

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-24 18:50]: > Assuming I do that, there's still the question of venue. > How/why/where will people read it in the first place? Should I > just add it to the POD for the module? That you should, irrespective of where you choose to promote it. When I see

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread John Siracusa
On 4/24/05 11:34 AM, Andy Lester wrote: > Your first goal will be explaining in 25 words or fewer why your > mapper thing is better than Class::DBI. When you have a module space > as overloaded as that, you've got to do some marketing. Don't expect > that you'll put your module out there, set up

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:48:28AM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > > What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few > modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in > active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possible to try > t

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Andy Lester
The first is my object/relational database mapper thingie. I don't know what the formal name for it is, but it's in roughly the same family as Class::DBI, Alzabo, Tangram, etc. I think this module has the most potential for wide-spread interest, judging by how much activity there is surroundi

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread John Siracusa
On 4/24/05 10:56 AM, Andy Lester wrote: > It would be a lot easier to help you if we knew the specifics of the > modules you're talking about. Well I was really trying to keep the question more general, but I can give you two specific examples. The first is my object/relational database mapper th

Re: Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread Andy Lester
What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possible to try them so I can get feedback from the community. How do I spread the

Bootstrapping a module community

2005-04-24 Thread John Siracusa
What's the best way to spread the word about a new module? I've got a few modules that I think a lot of people would find useful. They're still in active development (pre-1.0) but I'd like as many people as possible to try them so I can get feedback from the community. How do I spread the word a