> I've once tried to start a discussion at PerlMonks about that: > http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=515728
Nice but old and too centralized. I suggest adding a "Modules to avoid" section on each page at the wiki page below: >> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?recommended_cpan_modules Again, Data::Dumper mentioned there (before my edit). > To add to this - I've also started a page for comparing Form > Processing modules at this same p5p wiki: > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?form_processing Cool! > but sure enough there is also a web framework page at the p5p wiki: > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?web_frameworks Wow. I had no idea about WebGUI. Great, another framework to evaluate. Oh, and Egg, Konstrukt, Solstice, ClearPress and TripleTail too. ... WebGUI does have a nice least of recommended practices (albeit for internal developers) at http://www.webgui.org/community-wiki/development-best-practices. That inspired me to dig the Catwiki for something similar and found KD's stub, which I extended and moved to http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/best_practices. I've also conflated a section from the FAQ into this: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/recommended_plugins > But there is one even more important point that I would like to make - > I think it is time that we all start writing reviews. And use star ratings! This is ridiculous: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Controller-BindLex/ has 5 stars. (kudos to Yuval for warning against using his own module, but please, add star ratings! It's fun to be sarcastic and not star-rate - http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Moose - but that often ends up being misleading) Another odd problem is that some prominent folks in the Catalyst sphere won't touch the wiki, no matter what (they're not at a loss for words - they explain things in great detail on IRC). I don't really know what to say to that. Maybe making an IRC bot that can be told to write to the catwiki would be a solution. To sum up: 1. Please star-rate and review modules you (dis)like at http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/My-Module 2. As Jay pointed out, Catalyst developers are indeed extremely helpful on the IRC channel. What I'd like to ask is that when they explain an FAQ or best practice, or anything that's been asked before, please copy/paste your explanation on the Catwiki, and I promise I'll format the stuff. Dan PS: Eventually, maybe we can then get a bot running to query catwiki and return the top search result, a-la: n00b: purl, Catalyst diet? purl: Catalyst diet is thin controller, fat model or http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/wiki/.search?search_type=all&q=catalyst+diet _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
