I think someone with beter prose than I should write and article for www.perl.com (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/general/writing.html).
Jay "Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi Everyone, > > I haven't contributed to the discussion on this list yet. But I think > Stephen's new approach is more promising than the one we had before (if > there was one beyond Stephen writing P5EE::Blue and driving the > discussion on this list; I don't mean to offense anyone, just seems like > this to me as an innocent bystander). > > > >What do you think that can be achieved in smaller groups that can't be > > >achieved in this group. What problem(s) do you think the smaller > > >groups fix that this group has? I'd appreciate a one or two paragraph > > >answer on this. > > Q. What problem(s) do you think the smaller groups fix? > > A. Smaller groups can reach the level of unity necessary to get > > something (anything!) done. > > Although I agree to Greg, that enterprise perl development could use > some more marketing, I think that smaller groups are more efficient when > it comes to a P5EE system or framework, and would produce solutions > faster, as their problem space is smaller. > Maybe if the people in these groups would just have to provide a simple > wrapping layer, then there would be some work done. Nobody has copious > free time to drive P5EE development. So if the amount of work would be > small, by having to maintain only a small codebase and having to support > only a very specialized user community, I think more people would commit > time to P5EE development. > But instead of just asking, who wants to form or start such a small > group, we could work out some "starting" groups. They should go further > than just mapping to one component from the component page > (http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/components.html), as "outsiders" > would still ask the question: "how does this all fit together?" > Although I must confess, that I don't have an idea how groups could be > formed. > > Benjamin >
