So if you don't work on core Perl 5, you don't count as a significant Perl contributor? That's pretty limiting, since there are only a few dozen of those people, and Perl 5 is far more than what ships in an individual perl-5.x.x.tar.gz tarball.
(FWIW, adding const to pointer arguments is not about cosmetics, but about allowing the compiler and static analysis tools to better understand the passing of data into and out of functions. This helps detect uninitialized data errors. Here's a thread you may find informative: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2005/03/msg98772.html)
You slight literally thousands of CPAN authors with your standards, saying that they are not "significant Perl contributors", and I suspect you're alone in your assessment. CPAN authors who create and maintain the tens of thousands of modules that make up the CPAN, whether little-used or wildly popular like Moose and Dancer, are making Perl 5 a much better place.
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A few automated, widely-used RSS aggregators are the best starting-point for Perl news.
That's a good general policy, and it's easy to understand and support.
You don't have to defend it by tearing down the work of other people.
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I wish there was a better term than "news" for blog aggregation. Without human editorial decisions, it's just a firehose. I'm not saying it's not valuable, but it's not news. My whole point in starting Perlbuzz with Skud was to specifically pick the interesting stuff out of the firehose.
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