Ports list - is it being maintained?

That raises a broader question.

Who maintains all of the non tarball content on CPAN and what is the
process for getting it changed?

-- David

The original idea was that we have files on cpan in the authors tree
that have a fixed name and can be overwritten by the owner. Then other
cpan content could link to these files with relative links. It did not
work out well. It seems that once somebody owns a file it becomes a
burdon to maintain it. Not really surprising. We probably need other
models for that.

Brainstorming -- what if we put all "static" CPAN content in a git
repo somewhere and arranged for the CPAN "master" to refresh from the
repo periodically. Then we choose a suitable admin team to review and
apply patches. (PAUSE admins + others?) That would let those
motivated to update things have a much clearer method of doing so.

-- David

We at perl.org took it over recently but haven't gotten this sort of thing setup yet. (First order of business was getting the mirror list maintained again, we setup a process for that and Henk Penning is now maintaining the list).

Next on the list is getting a proper tiered mirroring setup going so we can get some load off FUnet. FUnet is already mirroring from here, but nobody else is yet (doh!). It will use Andreas' File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent system for "instant updates". I bought some new hardware for this but the ethernet controller went bad so it's back at the vendor.

Lastly I'm going to setup a git repository and a system to maintain the "static pages"; probably building them with ttree (from template toolkit). Since there seems to be interest in helping with this, I'll try to get it done soon. :-)



- ask

Awesome. I'll keep my fingers crossed and wait for it whenever you
find the tuits.

-- David

The ports page and the CPAN FAQ (probably the documents most in need of update) are now on:

https://github.com/perlorg/cpanorg


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In article <E164AB75-FE94-408D-BDDB-810734723226@perl.org>, Ask Bjørn
Hansen wrote:
Any chance of converting the CPAN FAQ to Pod and generating the HTML
from that? I can do all the work, although there's that pesky rule in
the README about creating new files. :)

As it's processed by TT you could just create a data section at the top.

[% sections = [
{
name => 'General Questions.'
questions => [
{
question => 'What is Perl',
answer => 'Cool!'
},
.....
]
},
.....
%]

Then loop over that to generate HTML (and or Pod later, or SQL to
insert or or or).

But that's just my preference.

Leo

That worked. :-) I think you had some other changes to the "how to mirror" section, too...