It was exactly 1 year ago today (Nov 3, 2010) that I registered the
metacpan.org domain name. Over the course of
this year, the project has gone from a couple of guys writing some code
to a true community effort.
MetaCPAN is steadily being adopted by Perl developers around the globe
and it is steadily gaining in functionality.
Together we've created a free, open, collaborative project which makes
new tools available to CPAN lovers everywhere. The API has spawned some
cool and very useful projects. The web site has spawned some much needed
functionality in the form of diffs, syntax highlighting, author profiles
etc.
What you may not know is that MetaCPAN is now set up in such a way that
all resources (servers, DNS, email, domain registration, etc) can be
configured by a handful of core devs. This means that if any one (or
several) core devs drop out of the picture, the project can continue on
as before. There is no one person who can act as a blocker to the rest
of the contributors and anything which might be considered controversial
requires consensus before it gets pushed to the master branch. So far, I
think this has yielded good results.
For example, here's the latest roundup, which does not include
numerous bug fixes and other tweaks by
PERLER, among others:
Sept 6: PLU adds a contributors
leaderboard
Dyn officially comes on board as our DNS
sponsor
Sept 9: RWSTAUNER adds
CPANRatings links to /release and /module pages
Sept 12: KENTNL adds
identi.ca to author profiles
Sept 15: JROBINSON adds
flattr to author profiles
DRAEGTUN adds
hackernews to author profiles
Sept 19: KENTNL adds
geekli.st to author profiles
Sept 27: LLAP edits
learn.perl.org links to point at MetaCPAN
Oct 14: MIYAGAWA updates
cpanminus to support the following syntax: "cpanm --metacpan" (code
courtesy of TOKUHIROM)
Oct 16: TOKUHIROM posts his
slides
from his YAPC::Asia talk on MetaCPAN.
Oct 17: KENTNL comes up with a
nice little hack to employ caching in
MetaCPAN::API calls
Oct 18: AZAWAWI integrates
MetaCPAN into
Padre
Oct 19: AZAWAWI adds the ability
for Padre to fetch Pod directly from MetaCPAN with the option of
inserting the SYNOPSIS directly into your document
Oct 20: The video of
TOKUHIROM's MetaCPAN talk is
posted. That is a quick turnaround on posting video. :)
Oct 21: I add a chronologically sorted list of distributions to get a
++ on MetaCPAN. (A ++
leaderboard is also made
available).
Oct 26: Dimitar Petrov now has mcpan.org online. This means converting
links from
search.cpan.org
to MetaCPAN is as simple as adding the letter "m":
search.mcpan.org
RWSTAUNER adds syntax
highlighting for .c, .h and .xss See
https://metacpan.org/source/DOY/Moose-2.0205/mop.c
Oct 28: RWSTAUNER adds syntax
highlighting to Changes files. See
https://metacpan.org/source/BRICAS/CPAN-Changes-0.18/Changes
Comments#
Author: stevenharyanto.myopenid.com
Date: 11/03/2011 06:11:31 AM
To Olaf, congratulations for starting a successful open source project and to the whole MetaCPAN team/contributors, congratulations for a great work. Happy 1st birthday!
Author: Sawyer X
Date: 11/03/2011 09:29:54 PM
This is a good opportunity to mention how much you rock! Seriously.
MetaCPAN has shown it’s greatness, IMHO, by bringing all these kickass people out of the woodworks, and having them work and build together this amazing ecosystem that interacts so well.
I can’t think of so many projects that got people to just volunteer themselves and build new stuff around it, while feeling right at home, ya know?
Kind of hard to explain, but to anyone who’s been working on projects of and within a community, MetaCPAN is a glaring example of how to do things right. It’s this formula we can’t really explain in so many words, but MetaCPAN definitely got it nailed!
Kudos to everyone involved!! :)
Author: :m)
Date: 11/03/2011 10:47:06 PM
thank you for metacpan. happy birthday!
Author: mishin
Date: 11/07/2011 12:35:20 PM
what i search perl module - i go to https://metacpan.org/ it is best perl source point of the world! thanks metacpan, perl became better
Author: Olaf Alders
Date: 11/11/2011 04:09:48 AM
That’s a glowing review! Thanks very much – it’s great to hear. :) Of course, the Dancer community is an excellent template for a lot of people coming together to create something truly great. It’s amazing how much people can get done when they just generally have a good attitude.
Author: Olaf Alders
Date: 11/11/2011 04:10:29 AM
A big thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. :)