On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Mark Dootson <mark.doot...@znix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the future health of the wxPerl community, I think it would be good if
> there were more direct contributors to the source or support in some other
> way.
>
> What do you think stops us having a larger number of commiters?
>
> I have an idea that as most of us come from a Perl background of some sort
> and not C++ it perhaps discourages active participation. I know that for me
> when first trying to add or fix a few things, because Wx includes a great
> deal of smart pre-processing, I found it quite difficult to piece the
> processes together in my head.
>
> So I am wondering if much more detailed documentation of the Wx internals /
> build process / api would be properly useful in this regard. wxPerl is my
> only C++ project involvement (and was the first XS one as I recall) so I'd
> like to gauge the community view on how helpful this would be? Helpful
> enough to do this instead of updating the library itself with new 2.9.4
> features.
>
> Also, any ideas on how we might grow the project by increasing the number of
> commiters? It seems an essential thing to do to me.
>
> Anyhow, that is just my view. Either we get more active commiters or the
> project may dwindle.
>
> Your view may be different - if so it would be good to share it so we can
> cherry pick from everyone's ideas.

It is very unlikely that I'll have the time to contribute any time
soon, even if I knew
C++ well, but maybe it will get others to contribute.

I was wondering if you could ask for a TPF grant for either the documentation or
the update project? Maybe that will help you allocate time for both
the documentation
and the 2.9.4 update.

Just 2c

Gabor

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