[Catalyst] RFC: Sample press release and announcement homepage

[John Napiorkowski]

--- On Fri, 4/24/09, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] RFC: Sample press release and announcement homepage
> To: "The elegant MVC web framework" <catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk>
> Date: Friday, April 24, 2009, 9:55 AM
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:27:42PM
> +1000, Chris wrote:
> > > You have to have an answer to the question 'if
> it's so great why have
> > > I never heard of it before?'  Particularly since
> the people you're
> > > aiming at (/. and digg readers) are exactly the
> people who judge the
> > > merits of something based on how much they hear
> about it.
> > >
> > 
> > Kudos to John for putting in the effort to put
> together this PR, but
> > my thoughts were pretty similar to Ian - it needs to
> immediately
> > address the question 'why should I care'. It probably
> doesn't matter
> > to newcomers that the project was coordinated by
> IRC/mailing
> > lists/etc.
> 
> I've restructured the press release based on comments from
> John, Chris, and others. Still some XXX's to fill in, but
> I
> wanted to get it in more decent shape. Can one of you guys
> who
> knows the benchmarks of iPlayer and so forth bang on it for
> a
> bit?
> 
> Jesse

Jesse,

These changes look great, definitely it's improving.  I emailed the iplayer people yesterday asking for permission to mention them and for some official statistic but haven't heard back yet.  If anyone on the list works there (or knows a person that knows a person) would be great to get an email introduction.

Ideally we'd get this out shortly, because releasing it on the weekend is just going to sap the impact.  If we can't get it in shape soon, we'll have to do it on Monday.

I'm working on gathering some testing stats.  For the first pass I'll just like the number of tests that get run when you install Catalyst, but later I'd like the testing advocacy page to be more of a comparison between the testing levels of Catalyst, RoR and some other systems.  The testing coverage for CPAN a a key differentiator I think, and something that makes good PR.  This is one way to try and turn the 'Perl is old and busted' around to 'Perl is mature and well tested, with know performance and scalability profiles'.

For the scalability advocacy page, I may drop that if we can release the PR today, since I'm a little time limited and I think the iplayer link/quote would cover it for this time.  If we do this on Monday, I might (or maybe some other volunteer) get to it on Sunday.

Thanks for all the feedback and revisions from everyone so far!

jnapiorkowski

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