On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 01:01 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > hi all, > > i saw the recent thread on beginner projects and thought i would toss in > some ideas. i have many perl modules in various stages and they have > many projects that need help. these projects vary in skill levels from > very simple to fairly high level stuff. i have had many newbies offer to > help but the biggest issue i have run into was their lack of > committment. will they put in some regular (not a lot of time but > steady) amount of work? how fast can they pick up the existing code and > problems? how well with they adhere to my style and existing code? will > they take my code critique and feedback in the proper way and learn from > it? i don't even care if you know source control as i know it minimally > and would edit in your code as i need by hand so that issue is moot. > > so are any of you up for this challenge? you will learn more and better > perl than in almost any other way. the road is hard and tricky but also > fun. check out my cpan modules at http://search.cpan.org/~uri/. most of > then have todo lists of varying sizes with all sorts of projects. i also > have new module ideas which are fairly fleshed out with design notes and > such. another module i am using myself is not published but needs tests > and documentation besides lots of improvements. adding those is a good > entry level project but even writing good technical docs is a difficult > skill. read my docs and see if you think you can get that level or even > better, beat it (i know that can be done with little effort! :). > > as it has been said the best way to learn more perl is to read more > perl. working on existing modules is a great way to do that. i will > offer massive amounts of help but i expect a certain level of energy in > return. it won't be easy for either of us but i am always open to find > the right minions! :) > > thanx, > > uri
I'm giving this some serious consideration. I've an itch I'm scratching atm (initially driven by work requirements) that I'd like to see made publicly available eventually (binary file converter; flexln/powerflex), so I'd probably want to get that sorted first, but then this would be very tempting indeed. In trepidation and anticipation, Tim Bowden -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
