Once a week, every week

Mark Fowler mark at twoshortplanks.com
Tue Jan 3 12:24:33 GMT 2012


On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:38 PM, David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Whilst I agree that pushing oneself to release more stuff to CPAN is a
> Good Thing, I think committing to release a distribution a week is
> likely to encourage "gaming" by just releasing tiny changes to existing
> distributions to meet the criteria, without actually adding any real
> value.
>
> On the other hand, though, it might encourage one to make & release a
> small change that you'd been considering doing at some point but had
> never got round to, and any release indicates to potential users that
> the distribution in question is still maintained, not abandoned, so it
> might not be a bad thing :)

I'm hoping for more of the latter at the risk of the former.  Only
time will tell.

Mark.


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