My Catincan funded cpan(1) fastest mirror enhancement
I've completed the cpan(1) fastest mirror enhancement I described in Perl in Catincan, an open source crowd funding proposal. I wanted to test this new crowd-funding system on something small. Everything worked out and "Perl" is the first project to have a fully funded feature implemented. There were some bumps because I was the first, but once I sent in my bank details, I had the money in a day. The code stuff is done, and once CPAN.pm releases a few things in my pull request, cpan(1) will have the new feature.
I specifically choose to work on my cpan script because it's part of core Perl, and I'd like to see other people who contribute directly to core try out some of their own features under "Perl". For those who aren't a contributor, I'm also interested in what you'd pay and how much you'd pay for a feature to be improved, implemented or whatever. Maybe you'd only pay $10, but maybe 1,000 other people would pay $10 too.
I'm also thinking of what I'd like to try next. I have a list of things I'd like to do, but I don't have any idea of the things that many other people would like me to do.
I'm the author of Mastering Perl, and the co-author of Learning Perl (6th Edition), Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl (4th Edition) and Effective Perl Programming (2nd Edition).
Neat!
Oh, and congrats on being one of the first 25 funded, but it's kind of cheating to fund yourself :-)
I didn't really mean to fund myself, but at the time their default contribution amount was the rest of the money. Once it happened it was just easier to let it go than undo all the credit card stuff. It's why I need to experiment with something where more people can participate.
It's one of the things I've been talking about with them. I'd rather see a way to over fund projects so that more people can reward the features they want. With that, you wouldn't reach some level and stop taking money.