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
