Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
Smylers wrote: Ivan Tubert-Brohman writes: I'm also considering the possibility of sending automated emails, similar to what rt.cpan.org does. However, I was still unsure about whether to do it opt-in or opt-out (or no-option ;-). Opt-out (or no-option) would irritate far too many people (not

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Andy Lester
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok, I've done this. Authors get an email the first time someone posts a note to their modules, and the email includes a subscribe link. Author who subscribe get further emails, which always include an

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Ovid
--- Ivan Tubert-Brohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, by now I have already received several bounces because some authors don't have a valid email address... And I'm sure there are folks like me whose [EMAIL PROTECTED] email goes into a black hole. There's just too much spam in it.

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-08-10 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0400, Ivan Tubert-Brohman wrote: Ok, I've done this. Authors get an email the first time someone posts a note to their modules, and the email includes a subscribe link. Author who subscribe get further emails, which always include an unsubscribe link. I

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-12 Thread Smylers
Ivan Tubert-Brohman writes: I'm happy to listen to your suggestions; AnnoCPAN is a work in progress and I'm still adding features and fixing bugs. Thanks Ivan for your work on this. I'm also considering the possibility of sending automated emails, similar to what rt.cpan.org does. However,

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 07:37:05AM +, Smylers wrote: Opt-out (or no-option) would irritate far too many people (not necessarily rationally, but it would). But people can only opt in if they know it exists to opt in to. Perhaps you could send one mail once, the first time each author has

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-11 Thread Ivan Tubert-Brohman
Adrian Howard wrote: On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
PS. An AnnoCPAN tip: Notice that if you are an author, you can subscribe to all comments on your modules: http://www.annocpan.org/~MARKSTOS/recent.rss I don't _want_ to subscribe to my feed. RSS would be just another distration in my life. What I'd just like, every 3 months or so when I've

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
Adrian Howard wrote: On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Adam Kennedy
Adrian Howard wrote: On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-10 Thread Smylers
Adam Kennedy writes: Adrian Howard wrote: http://www.annocpan.org/~ADAMK/ Nope... PPI (1 notes; latest 2005-07-04 ) Yup. Click on PPI... List of 9 versions of PPI, no information on the notes. Given that one of the advertised features of AnnoCpan is how it automatically

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: Example: http://www.annocpan.org/dist/Net-ICal-0.15/lib/Net/ICal.pm I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Nik Clayton
Michael G Schwern wrote: So where's the RSS push interface so I don't have to go checking 2983 RSS feeds every day to see if there's anything interesting? Call me a snob, but O(1) is still better than O(n). PS Its entirely possible I'm just ignorant. www.bloglines.com for an example of

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Mark Stosberg wrote: If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: But not with the actual AUTHOR of the module apparently. From what I can tell, this does nothing at all to help the author of the modules. There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Adrian Howard
On 8 Jul 2005, at 20:08, Adam Kennedy wrote: [snip] There's no way to get a listing of the annotations for a given author id, or even for a given dist. So I'm reduced to manually looking through a thousand odd web pages to find potential changes or improvements to the code. [snip]

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-09 Thread Jeff Bisbee
* Adrian Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.annocpan.org/~ADAMK/ Complete with RSS feed :-) Sweet! This should be noted more predominately on the site :) -- Jeff Bisbee / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / jbisbee.com

AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
If you haven't see AnnoCPAN, it's a new way to share comments on Perl POD: Example: http://www.annocpan.org/dist/Net-ICal-0.15/lib/Net/ICal.pm I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN documentation could be

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 16:24:45 +, Mark Stosberg wrote: I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN documentation could be stuffed into a kwiki wiki using the POD format feature. It's been done =)

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:24:45PM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: I have an idea about taking it a step further-- making it easier to close the loop with the author to integrate updates. CPAN documentation could be stuffed into a kwiki wiki using the POD format feature. Users could adjust

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread demerphq
Schwern wrote: The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an option to subscribe to the recent notes feed. A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and live in our MTAs not our web browsers. Did you see Tim O'Reilly's note:

Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea

2005-07-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:17:22PM +0200, demerphq wrote: Schwern wrote: The little RSS icon in the lower right only gives an option to subscribe to the recent notes feed. A daily email digest would be nice for those of us who prefer push and live in our MTAs not our web browsers.

OT: integrating RSS with mail readers (was: Re: AnnoCPAN and a wiki POD idea)

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-07-08, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. An AnnoCPAN tip: Notice that if you are an author, you can subscribe to all comments on your modules: http://www.annocpan.org/~MARKSTOS/recent.rss Not knowing anything about RSS I put the URL into Firefox and it asked me if I