> And as kind of coincidence just today I've seen this: > http://www.trac-hacks.org/ It is a site hosting svn archives of all > kinds of plugins, macros and patches for Trac - even unfinished ones. > Wouldn't a Catalyst hacks site be beneficial for us?
CPAN. I've tried a few of the trac hacks on my own trac site, and they are largely useless and broken. A bunch of half-baked pieces of code that may or may not work is not something I would consider beneficial for the Catalyst project. A collection of well-tested, well-documented modules, however, *is* useful; and that's what the CPAN is. Nothing's stopping you from uploading crap to the CPAN, but the crap is weeded out pretty quickly. 95% of the modules on the CPAN are "pretty good" or better. In addition, you get free mirroring, problem tracking, ratings, forums, cross-platform test reports, advice on how to improve your module (CPANTS), etc., etc. track-hacks is just a wiki with some code you can cut-n-paste. The disadvantage of CPAN is that you might have some neat code but don't feel like getting a PAUSE account, creating a module, writing tests, and all that. If that's the case, talk to me (jrockway on irc.perl.org) and I'll help you clean everything up and get it on CPAN. We can also probably host the code in the Catalyst SVN tree, and of course mention it in the next release of the documentation! Let me reiterate -- if you have a half-baked hack it's very likely that someone will help you polish it into a fully-baked module! Just ask -- there's no excuse for sitting on your cool hack :) Regards, Jonathan Rockway
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