Am 10.04.2012 17:57, schrieb Tim Bunce: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:40:12PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote: >> >> Or - what I like to mention - there's missing a European equivalent for >> crowd funding. >> >> I always wanted to rewrite SQL::Statement reusing ribasushi's great >> SQL::Translator (allows to parse different SQL dialects - and have only >> one SQL parser on CPAN to maintain) and simplifying the sql >> processing engine using OO techniques, but it took nearly three man >> months to update DBD::File and related - it would take much more >> time to rework SQL::Statement. This is no quick goal, no low hangin >> fruit - so I expect no one will "need it enough". Technicians usually >> don't manage so much money, managers don't understand the >> benefit. >> >> I expect, more parts of Perl and/or DBI have similar funding problems. > > Well it just so happens that there's a chunk of money sitting in a > Perl Foundation bucket called the "DBI Development Fund". > Some of you may remember there was a fund raising drive several years ago. > > [later] Oh, it was 2004! Those were heady days of DBI v2 and perl v6. > http://groups.google.com/group/perl.dbi.users/msg/caf189d7b404a003?pli=1 > > From time-to-time I've pondered how the money might best be used. > (I forget how much, a few thousand I think.) I've never drawn any money > from it myself, and I'm not particularly keen to. > > So I'm open to ideas for its best use. Some items from the Roadmap (in > the link above) may still be valid and useful. I imagine they'd need to be > approved by the TPF. Obviously, only practical projects with clear goals > would get much consideration.
I didn't beg for money in form of payment - even if owning more money is not worse in general, getting payed is not the problem. The problem for me as person was - being 3 month at home developing on something no one of current active developers had understood completely in it's depth was a lot of digging, asking and waiting actions with less social interaction usually happens in normal business days. What I really missed was someone who had some time, too, to talk about. I'm not sure if this is possible, because I don't know much people with enough background to help out there (to be true: I can imagine of 4-6). > With regard to migrating SQL::Statement to be built on SQL::Translator, > that's clearly a big task, but one that I presume could be broken down > into smaller tasks. This is probably a good first start either. When the tasks are know (which could be fully clarified before any line of code is written), it's probably much easier to find someone with time who help thinking and digging ;) Best regards, Jens
