Re: GSoC Status Update

On 08/23/2011 11:03 PM, Marc Green wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is my last status update, as GSoC ended today (Monday, at the time
> of writing). [I am not able to send this out now because I do not have
> access to my email (well, to the Internet). I am going to send it out
> tomorrow or the day after.]
>
> I believe my project has been successful, and I am positive my mentors
> would agree. That being said, I am *still* not done with neither
> Pod::Html nor Pod::Checker. Well, I am done with all the coding --
> they're both in their final stages in that regard, but they are yet to
> be merged into core and tested (and complained about). I plan to see
> them through though, and I plan on being the maintainer for both of them
> if possible.
>
> I was able to wrap up everything with Pod::Checker this week, so all I
> need to do is to clean up its commit history (which will get done within
> the next few days). Actually, that is a lie, I was not able to get
> everything wrapped up. There is one thing in particular that I did not
> get done: splitting Pod::Checker into Pod::Checker and
> Pod::Checker::Internals, the latter being-a Pod::Simple and the former
> having-a Pod::Checker::Internals. This split was conjured up in order to
> remove Pod::Simple from Pod::Checker's interface. However, as I just
> said, I was not able to do this. Instead, I added a warning in
> Pod::Checker's documentation explaining that no user should EVER use any
> aspect of Pod::Checker's interface that has to do with Pod::Simple
> unless it is documented. Perhaps this is a task that can be tackled by
> me or someone else in the future.
>
> Oh, actually, my lie in the previous paragraph was a lie for another
> reason too. My mentor, rjbs, offered to do some grunt work on
> Pod::Checker for me so I could focus on the bigger stuff. These tasks
> include removing the 5.14isms I used throughout and making Pod::Checker
> its own dist (apart from Pod::Parser). These are not done yet, but him
> and I are going to remain in contact so that the new Pod::Checker can
> see the light of day.
>
> Pod::Html shall also see the light of day. My second mentor, theory,
> released a new version of Pod::Simple which contains some new code I
> added to allow me to finish Pod::Html a while back. [At the time of
> writing this it might not be released, but he assured me it would be in
> the next few days, so I will take his word.] Now that it is released, I
> can rebase its commit history to remove some hacks that let me use the
> aforementioned new code. Pod::Html will then be merged into core and
> hopefully be a success.
>
> I feel this has been a wonderful experience for me; my foot is in the
> Perl community door now, and I have gotten a taste of what it is like to
> contribute to an open source project. It has also been a great
> experience for the Perl community (I can imagine), as who doesn't like
> seemingly free, beneficial code. (Seemingly beneficial, perhaps.)
>
> Thank you everyone who helped me this summer, in particular rjbs,
> theory, and rafl. I appreciate it!
>
> Marc

Marc++