From pjf at perltraining.com.au  Sat Sep  6 02:53:08 2008
From: pjf at perltraining.com.au (Paul Fenwick)
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:53:08 +1000
Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Contribute towards the Perl 5.8.9 release documents
 and get supper bragging rights.
Message-ID: <48C25304.1040401@perltraining.com.au>

G'day Sydney.pm, Canberra.pm, and Brisbane.pm,

As some of you may have heard, I've volunteered to write the
release notes for the upcoming 5.8.9 release of Perl.  However I rapidly
discovered there's an awful lot of changes that need to be examined and
distilled into the final document that will become perl589delta.pod.

Luckily, this is a task that's easily broken into chunks and run in
parallel, and I've done exactly that.  I've got a copy of all the changes
that have gone into the 5.8 branch since 5.8.8 was released, and I've
chunked it by month.  Some months are quiet, with not many changes, and some
months are very busy, with lots of changes.

I'm making a call out to the Perl community to volunteer to help with the
writing of the release notes.  You don't need to be familiar with Perl's
guts to do this; if you don't understand a change we'll have a "too hard"
bucket that things can be thrown into, and someone (who may be me) will
figure them out.  Likewise, you don't need a lot of time; I'm not expecting
everyone who volunteers for a chunk of work to finish the entire chunk, just
as long as you work on it sequentially and let us know where you're up to,
you can put it down at any time.

Contributing to the perl589delta project directly helps with the release of
Perl 5.8.9.  However you'll also get a mention in the prestigious Perl
authors file, which looks totally awesome on your resume, and gives you
super bragging rights.  If you're on www.ohloh.net, you'll get kudos from
me, and commit points from the project.  Your work will almost certainly
give you enough material for a 5-minute "What's new in my bit of Perl 5.8.9"
lightning talk, which will make you incredibly popular at conferences and
user-groups.

In order to get started, just follow the instructions in the README file at
the bottom of our source control repository page at:

	http://github.com/pfenwick/perl589delta/

and sign up to the discussion list at:

	http://groups.google.com/group/perl589delta/

Feel free to track the repository or sign up the list even if you're not
sure if you want to contribute, and are just curious about how all this
works.  We're happy to have the company!

If you have any questions, you can ask on the list, e-mail me privately, or
mail the perl589delta team at perl589delta at googlegroups.com

Many thanks, and all the best,

	Paul

-- 
Paul Fenwick <pjf at perltraining.com.au> | http://perltraining.com.au/
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From simonhaidley at internode.on.net  Mon Sep  8 21:51:42 2008
From: simonhaidley at internode.on.net (Simon Haidley)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:51:42 +1000
Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Just joined
Message-ID: <059501c91237$c11ffc90$435ff5b0$@on.net>

Hi All,

 

Just subscribed to the list and was hoping to connect with other perl
programmers in my area.  I live in Toowoomba, but work for a medical college
in Brisbane. 

 

Regards

Simon Haidley

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From damian at eidsvold.net  Mon Sep  8 22:33:57 2008
From: damian at eidsvold.net (Damian James)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:33:57 +1000
Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Just joined
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References: <059501c91237$c11ffc90$435ff5b0$@on.net>
Message-ID: <C0176AEA-56F4-4E8D-92B8-EF9EA71E9BCA@eidsvold.net>

Hi Simon,

This list is normally pretty quiet. There are a few of us around, but  
mostly busy with our own stuff. Those who are active, I believe, are  
active with SAGE-AU or HUMBUG or some other group with a broader  
constituency.

That said, some more traffic in this list is always welcome. Do feel  
free to start any sort of Perl-related discussion. It's kinda nice to  
see people poke their heads up once in a while :)

Cheers
Damian

From simonhaidley at internode.on.net  Mon Sep  8 23:11:35 2008
From: simonhaidley at internode.on.net (Simon Haidley)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:11:35 +1000
Subject: [Brisbane-pm] Just joined
In-Reply-To: <C0176AEA-56F4-4E8D-92B8-EF9EA71E9BCA@eidsvold.net>
References: <059501c91237$c11ffc90$435ff5b0$@on.net>
	<C0176AEA-56F4-4E8D-92B8-EF9EA71E9BCA@eidsvold.net>
Message-ID: <05ce01c91242$ea81b3c0$bf851b40$@on.net>

H Damien,

I can relate to being busy.  In fact my main reason for joining was in the
hope to connect with some other perl programmers that are interested in
doing some extra work.  We have predominately a mod_perl, Apache, CentOS
platform.  So, if anybody is looking for some homework, I'd love to hear
from you.

Regards,
Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Damian James [mailto:damian at eidsvold.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2008 3:34 PM
To: Simon Haidley
Cc: brisbane-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Brisbane-pm] Just joined

Hi Simon,

This list is normally pretty quiet. There are a few of us around, but  
mostly busy with our own stuff. Those who are active, I believe, are  
active with SAGE-AU or HUMBUG or some other group with a broader  
constituency.

That said, some more traffic in this list is always welcome. Do feel  
free to start any sort of Perl-related discussion. It's kinda nice to  
see people poke their heads up once in a while :)

Cheers
Damian