Quoting Fred Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Wiles wrote: > > > We tried last year to get a mod_perl advocacy movement going, > but > > not to many people were interested in helping with it. > > There is a mailing list just for the advocacy movement here: > > http://perl.apache.org/maillist/advocacy.html > > The last post was in May, right before YAPC and the summer > conferences > got everyone busy. Maybe we should move this thread there and > inject > some more energy into the advocacy movement.
I think a great first-place to start for advocacy is to work with the various linux/bsd/*nix distributions out there to make sure that they have a modern, compatible version of mod_perl 2. As a user, I don't want to maintain my own perl/mod_perl build tree - I want my distro to do the right thing. Perhaps a first-step in the advocacy movement is to maintain a "distro compatibility list" for mod_perl 2 on perl.apache.org, so that it's not such a black-art in determining whether mod_perl/Apache::* packages are up-to-date or whether there are timebombs waiting to ambush new users. Purging the out-of-date mod_perl2 packages from distros seems like it will be a huge first step. We'll likely lose potential mod_perl users if they get excited about mod_perl only to find it is broken in their distro of choice. My $.02 Tony
