Permanent "bulletin boards" @ PM...

[blazar]

Recently a Tidings entry has been published to the effect that it has been created a permanent "bulletin board" where they post requests for new tutorials: Tutorials Quest. Now another such board, although in the form of a more regular thread, that springs to mind is the poll ideas quest linked to from the The Monastery Gates themselves, and an even more regular thread that it is somehow "neverending" (no one really is, in the sense that they don't get "closed" after some time) is the nice one about the PM community itself: Name Space.

I'd also like to know about other ones...

Thus I wonder if there's any official or semi-official list of such threads or "boards", ranging from the most technically oriented to the ones optimized for fun. Personally, the first place I would have looked into, and I did, is The Perl Monks Guide to the Monastery: but there's nothing there in this sense. Maybe it may be added.

[jdporter]

If it's official, you've probably already seen it.

One of the great fun things about this place is that there is so much to explore and discover. Having a big official catalog of all the dank, dark corners of the Monastery would kill the thrill, I think.

So here's my tip: Many adventurous Friars before you (such as yrs trly) have recorded their findings on their homenodes or scratchpads — or, indeed, in PMD responses 10 layers deep. That would be a good place to start.

The other thing is that, as you obtain the cap and gown of the various Monastic Orders, you are handed the keys to various back corridors and stairwells. And it occurs to you that the secrets you discover there may be better left unrevealed, since the uninitiated would probably either not have access or not comprehend.

[blazar]

One of the great fun things about this place is that there is so much to explore and discover. Having a big official catalog of all the dank, dark corners of the Monastery would kill the thrill, I think.

So here's my tip: Many adventurous Friars before you (such as yrs trly) have recorded their findings on their homenodes or scratchpads — or, indeed, in PMD responses 10 layers deep. That would be a good place to start.

Indeed this is a good suggestion... in fact I occasionally do browse home nodes... and often find gems there... but well, I have the impression that killing the thrill or not at least some corners of the Monastery would be more useful or funny (and something funny is useful, if you ask me) by being... err... less dark, and that the gain in this sense would overweight the loss in thrill and mystery. But then, probably it's just me...

[belg4mit]

Umm, it's a wiki. We have a few, most of them are not public.

[blazar]

Umm, it's a wiki. We have a few, most of them are not public.

Well, I was obviously thinking of public stuff and not necessarily of "special" nodes, like wikis, in any way. I was (also) referring to threads like the old poll ideas quest or Name Space. As far as the latter is concerned, as you can see, it has been actively written to for some years, but now the last entry is from Jan 07, 2007, while the previous one from Nov 28, 2006. Not very visible, and while certainly not vital to the Monastery, let alone Perl... something funny and nice to have!