On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want to sign up for the Perl 5 Documentation Team, leave an > email here or email me directly. If you know what you want to work on > mention it, otherwise I will assign you a task. > > -- > Chas. Owens > wonkden.net > The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. >
I'm in too. I have way more things on my list of things that I'd like to see happen than I could possibly handle. Some smaller ideas that I wouldn't mind someone else stealing them from me, but that I'll probably end up doing otherwise: * Changing all uses of typeglob filehandles to lexical filehandles (except where documenting open itself, obviously) * Changing all uses of two argument open to three argument open (except where documenting open itself) I would really like the object oriented documentation to be taken into the current century. Pretty much all of it was written in the 90s and it's grossly out of date. I don't want to see @ISA anymore, seriously. Not to mention there are some bugs in there. Some of the current documentation is so bad that I think deleting it right now even before we've written a replacement would be an improvement. This would be a rather serious amount of work, it should probably be done by a small group of people instead of one person. Other ideas: * perltrap should include modern languages like Python, Ruby and PHP. This would be a lot more useful than Perl4 and awk. * perlmodinstall should be made Build.PL aware * perlipc should use IO::* instead of low level functions I wish I had as much time as I have ideas though :-| Leon Timmermans
