I know you wanted to hear from non-Perl programmers, but I thought I'd throw this in, as I've suggested on the jQuery list in the past that people submit their jQuery work to JSAN (I have a couple of pre-jQuery items on JSAN myself)
The killer I think for JSAN is the infrastructure's immaturity. At least for a time, Casey seemed to be running the uploads for JSAN manually, so you never knew when your code would hit the repository. Another thing I think needs improving is a browseable interface to the repository. I think this is one of cpan.org's strengths that is missing from openjsan. In addition to the search box (search.cpan.org), CPAN has browseable categories for modules. No such interface seems to exist for JSAN. People from other language backgrounds may have different objections, but those are what seem to be standing in the way from my point of view. -Stephen John Beppu wrote: > to John Resig: > > Have you considered uploading jQuery to openjsan.org? > > I ask, becuase I feel the Perl guys could use a decent foundation to > do their work on, and jQuery might fit the bill. > > ---- > > to everyone else: > > I'm a little concerned about JSAN, because it started out as a > promising project to bring something CPAN-like for all Javascript > programmers, but it's kinda fizzled out after the initial excitement. > One serious problem in my mind is that it's mainly Perl people who > seem to care about it right now while people from other language > communities (like Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, etc.) seem to ignore it. > In the very beginning, this wasn't the case, because the guy who wrote > Prototype was willing to work with the JSAN group, and the guy who > wrote MochiKit (a python guy) actually has uploaded a few versions to > openjsan.org (although it seems like he hasn't uploaded the latest > versions). There was an initial willingness by a diverse group to > work together, but this doesn't seem to be the case anymore, and > that's sad. > > My hunch is that aspects of openjsan.org take a bit too much from the > Perl community, and for whatever reason, this is a turn-off to > non-Perl programmers. (I think using POD for Javascript documentation > may be one of these things but it's hard for me to say....) > > > > Anyway, I'd like to hear from non-Perl programmers what they think of > openjsan.org and especially what they DO NOT like about openjsan.org > (so we'll know what to fix). > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > [email protected] > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
