Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Foley
On Sunday 27 April 2008 21:43:35 Shlomi Fish wrote: the conversion to XHTML 1.1 (valid now) etc. the patch will be very huge, so I'll just send you the new file. You can find it here: http://www.shlomifish.org/perl-timeline-temp/PerlTimeline.html Excellent work. All that was said, I

Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

2008-04-28 Thread Andy Lester
but I'm not really surprised when she gets her project whipped from under her feet. No one is stopping any other project from doing anything. Nobody is taking away any projects from anyone else. Plurality is the nature of open source, and it's an additive process, not a subtractive

Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

2008-04-28 Thread John Adams
From: Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plurality is the nature of open source, and it's an additive process, not a subtractive one. Template Toolkit doesn't take away from Mason. Devel::*Prof don't take away from Devel::DProf. Perlbuzz doesn't take away from use.perl.org. Perl 6 doesn't

Re: There is no cabal

2008-04-28 Thread Andy Lester
I wasn't offered my own new wiki-thread though, maybe I didn't ask the right person... What do you mean offered my own new wiki-thread? You don't get offered something on a wiki. You go and start it yourself. I realise that you had not intended to make this much of an issue out it, or

Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

2008-04-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 28 April 2008, Richard Foley wrote: On Sunday 27 April 2008 21:43:35 Shlomi Fish wrote: the conversion to XHTML 1.1 (valid now) etc. the patch will be very huge, so I'll just send you the new file. You can find it here:

Re: There is no cabal

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Foley
On Monday 28 April 2008 18:41:00 Andy Lester wrote: There is no Perl Cabal There usually is one, somewhere, if you look closely enough... ;-) I think we're getting a bit off-topic though. This thread was about Elaine's Timeline, and her right to continue her project as she sees

Re: There is no cabal

2008-04-28 Thread Andy Lester
On Apr 28, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Richard Foley wrote: I think we're getting a bit off-topic though. This thread was about Elaine's Timeline, and her right to continue her project as she sees fit, rather than someone else to decide on behalf of the community that her project should be

Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

2008-04-28 Thread Elaine Ashton
On 28 Apr, 2008, at 12:22, Richard Foley wrote: Well, I started to revise it myself once, but didn't get much of an answer from anywhere about how to take it on either. I wasn't offered my own new wiki-thread though, maybe I didn't ask the right person... What, did you have problems

Re: There is no cabal

2008-04-28 Thread Alan
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:49:16PM +0200, Richard Foley wrote: On Monday 28 April 2008 18:41:00 Andy Lester wrote: There is no Perl Cabal There usually is one, somewhere, if you look closely enough... Only one? The question is whether the cabal is an array or a scalar. Personally I

[JOKE] Re: There is no cabal

2008-04-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 28 April 2008, Andy Lester wrote: I wasn't offered my own new wiki-thread though, maybe I didn't ask the right person... What do you mean offered my own new wiki-thread? You don't get offered something on a wiki. You go and start it yourself. I realise that you had not

Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

2008-04-28 Thread Jim Brandt
Elaine Ashton wrote: I'll welcome updates. I'll welcome fixed links and html. I'll welcome new content. brian and chromatic have posted a few 'Year in Review' type nodes to Perlmonks and oreillynet that would likely be helpful if someone were to work on some updates. Here's the link to

Re: There is no cabal

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Scott
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:41:00 -0500, Andy Lester wrote: What sort of power are you ascribing to these unnamed people-in- power? There is no power. There is no Perl Cabal [...] Oh, I beg to differ: http://web.archive.org/web/20030716002311/perlcabal.com/lwall.html :-) -- Peter Scott