Re: Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:55 PM, brian d foy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Leo Lapworth (Ranguard) is working on the www.cpan.org website in the
> same way he skinned many of the perl.org websites. He's a bit shy so he
> asked that I introduce him since I dumped the task on him. :)

Ranguard++

Really, Leo (are you on this list now?) your work is awesome.  You
have no need to be shy about it.

> Here are some things for the next step, though. Some of these things
> people can work on locally and integrate after the switch. Instead of
> dreaming about what could be, delivering working code will win the day.
>
> I think David Golden and Adam Kennedy already have the stuff to handle
> the mirror discovery, reporting, lists, etc.

As usual, I think we have slightly different variations.  I'm more
interested in getting a proper tiering structure in place and a way
for people to register themselves on a tier.  How we syndicate is (a)
easy if we just use the old MIRRORED.BY that old clients support and
(b) half-easy if we have a new way to publish information that future
clients can support.

> I don't know what is generating the http://www.cpan.org/RECENT page
> right now, but PAUSE now has a lot of files to show recent activity for
> various time slices.  Anyone interested in doing something with that,
> maybe even twitter-feed like? Someone had a "subscribe to this distro"
> feature. I seem to recall that it might have been part of Perlbuzz.

There are lots of these out there already.  Can we just steal good
stuff and consolidate?  E.g. http://frepan.64p.org/about

-- David