Re: [HACKERS] A small note about the difficulty of managing subprojects

2008-10-13 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Oct 12, 2008, at 20:15, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Yeah I would agree with that. I find that only "real" issue with PgFoundry is the PgFoundry (aka Gforge) not the quality of the projects being hosted. The other thing that could use some love is searching for projects. Google doesn't rank

Re: [HACKERS] A small note about the difficulty of managing subprojects

2008-10-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: So ... I couldn't help noticing that the consensus among the Perl guys seemed to be that "90% of what is on CPAN is unmaintained crap". (They agree however that the other 10% is what makes it worth doing; and furthermore that you can't easily tell which fraction any new project w

[HACKERS] A small note about the difficulty of managing subprojects

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Lane
So somehow I got dragooned into speaking at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop (which is held only a couple miles from where I live, so it was hard to say no). A portion of what I had to say was that CPAN seemed to be a lot better-run than pgfoundry. So ... I couldn't help noticing that the consensus a