Re: "How to contribute" documentation

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 11:55:56 -0400, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote:

> What about http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_contribute_modules
> (i.e. "read the FAQ" )
> 
> And a Google query "how to upload to CPAN" gives plenty of good links right
> away.
> 
> I have no objections to making it easier, but I'm more interested in what
> someone getting a bachelors found "complex and cumbersome".

I perused the paper. Someone writing all his tools in python might have
a biased opinion.

> David
> 
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM, David Cantrell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > I was looking at this thesis:
> >   http://incolumitas.com/data/thesis.pdf
> >
> > and see that the author didn't try to attack the CPAN because "[it] had
> > such a bad documentation quality". I assume* that he means it wasn't
> > clear how to go about uploading a module.
> >
> > And I think he's got a point. It's not obvious to someone who's not
> > already "in the know". I therefore suggest that we move (or maybe copy)
> > the "how to contribute" section from
> > http://www.cpan.org/modules/index.html
> > to http://www.cpan.org/.
> >
> > PR here that copies the relevant section:
> >   https://github.com/perlorg/cpanorg/pull/32
> >
> > * I have contacted him for clarification, because we all know what
> >   happens when we assume
> >
> > --
> > David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist
> >
> > I know that you believe you understand what you think you wrote, but
> > I'm not sure you realize that what you wrote is not what you meant.
> >  
> 
> --
> David Golden <[email protected]> Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg


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