[Catalyst] catalyst/perl and resources

[Peter Edwards]

Hi D

> If you had a small project that was growing from one or two people
> that needed (say) 5 or 6, what kind of problems does that present?
>
> I'm getting the impression that it isn't too
> easy to recruit perlers.
>
> This is very speculative thinking on my part, just wanted to have a 
> quick "straw poll" as to what is going on out there.

I'm running a project using Catalyst for one part and decided it was going
to come down to a choice between teleworkers or sub-contractors. Catalyst
hasn't been around long enough for there to be many experienced developers
you could recruit. I made a shortlist by looking at who had contributed what
to SVN, the code quality and how well they communicated with others on
list/IRC. It's worth trying http://jobs.perl.org and there's quite a few
perlers on http://www.linkedin.com.
 
For any team, as numbers increase you have to allow more time for
communication between members, including more specs and docs. Also look at
tools, procedures and coding standards. 

Regards, Peter
http://www.dragonstaff.com  Business IT Consultancy