On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 12:19 PM, Marco Marongiu wrote:
Could I contribute to the DateTime project? I think I can't. Working with calendars and times would require me an effort bigger than I can take.
A contribution you could make fairly easily is a documentation patch, showing how it could be used for the specific case you needed in your work.
Proliferation of modules on CPAN is evil? Maybe. Maybe not. It could create confusion, you are right. But... well, I'll say in italian: "Cio` che hai in piu` non ti impoverisce"; I don't have a good translation in english, but it could sound like "things you got and don't need don't make you poor". It's a natural selection process: people search for modules that do the job, read the docs and make a choice. If my module is bad, they simply won't use it.
Yeah, but it still stays on CPAN to confuse the next person. Natural selection isn't quite the right metaphor here, since modules don't die out from disuse.
-Ken
