[Catalyst] RFC: Sample press release and announcement homepage

[Kieren Diment]

On 25/04/2009, at 12:16 AM, John Napiorkowski wrote:

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> Jesse,
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> 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.
>

I Filled in some more blanks on the page.  iPlayer/catalyst is public  
knowledge now, and apparently there's bbc approved info to be  
disemminated:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/iplayer_day_performance_tricks.html

It's already the weekend on this side of the date line, maybe release  
Monday at this stage.

> 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.
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> 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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