Jeff Zucker wrote:
Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
on the DBD::mysql mailing list came up the suggestion for installing a
Wiki somewhere.
I like the idea. We should think carefully about what already exists
and clearly differentiate what we are doing from the other efforts. The
similar projects that I know about which already exist are PerlMonks,
cpan.forum, and rt.cpan.org.
Where is cpan.forum located ? I can't find any links at cpan.org...
Perlmonks (as I assume most of you know)
is a longstanding Perl online community with a huge amount of
DBI-related information (and some DBI-related misinformation :-)).
Personally, I (aka jZed on PerlMonks) find PerlMonks to be a real
community - although there is some flaming, trolling, insulting, it is
very much minimized compared to say the average usenet forum. The
questions and answers on PerlMonks run the gamut from complete beginners
to people like Perrin and Michael Peppler who provide real depth.
Cpan.forum is fairly new and I haven't used it much but it appears to
have the infrastructure to deal with many modules. Rt.cpan is not quite
the same thing, but I mention it because we, as authors, need to already
keep our eyes on rt.cpan, dbi-users, PerlMonks and the idea of yet
another place is somewhat daunting.
I think the differentiator is the "Wiki"-ized content, which tends to
be more structured, and would hopefully become a Wikipedia for the DBI
(and DBD's and DBIx's). PerlMonks content tends to be scattered;
archives of this maillist are difficult to search, and pretty
unstructured (Googled or otherwise); rt.cpan is for bug reports, and
I've never seen cpan.forum.
BTW: should dbi-users be included in this discussion ?
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
