On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM, brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> wrote: > Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) is working on the www.cpan.org website in the > same way he skinned many of the perl.org websites. He's a bit shy so he > asked that I introduce him since I dumped the task on him. :)
Ranguard++ Really, Leo (are you on this list now?) your work is awesome. You have no need to be shy about it. > Here are some things for the next step, though. Some of these things > people can work on locally and integrate after the switch. Instead of > dreaming about what could be, delivering working code will win the day. > > I think David Golden and Adam Kennedy already have the stuff to handle > the mirror discovery, reporting, lists, etc. As usual, I think we have slightly different variations. I'm more interested in getting a proper tiering structure in place and a way for people to register themselves on a tier. How we syndicate is (a) easy if we just use the old MIRRORED.BY that old clients support and (b) half-easy if we have a new way to publish information that future clients can support. > I don't know what is generating the http://www.cpan.org/RECENT page > right now, but PAUSE now has a lot of files to show recent activity for > various time slices. Anyone interested in doing something with that, > maybe even twitter-feed like? Someone had a "subscribe to this distro" > feature. I seem to recall that it might have been part of Perlbuzz. There are lots of these out there already. Can we just steal good stuff and consolidate? E.g. http://frepan.64p.org/about -- David
