On Friday, November 26, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Terrence Brannon wrote:
I have developed a prototype magazine to be distributed by CPAN... I am also interested in volunteers who want to help in any way they want.
I think this is an interesting idea; thanks for taking the initiative.
In considering how I could effectively help, several questions occur to me:
- What do you have in mind when you say "magazine", and what lead you to select that publishing model?
- Do you envision ever creating a paper edition, or is it more akin to a collection of manpages?
- What's the relationship between the magazine and this mailing list?
- What choices would lead authors to submit an article to this forum, rather than to the current choices, like Perl Monks, Perl Review, Perl.com, etc?
Please let me know if you have any ideas about how the magazine is packaged and presented so that its contents are easily searched on CPAN.
I'll second brian's point about just packaging POD files: change the extension from .pm to .pod and strip out everything before the first =head.
Also, instead of 11_04, consider a machine-sortable date format like 200411 (or at least 04_11) so that directory indexes come out in chronological order.
What we are trying to avoid is a huge monolithic upload like the original CPAN publication:
http://search.cpan.org/~swalters/Object-PerlDesignPatterns-0.03/
Personally, I think the size of that distribution is less of a problem than the fact that it's all in one file. (The gzipped POD is just 242KB, but contains hundreds of articles that you can't read individually.)
-Simon
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