Documentation is to be overhauled

[hippo]

Google is funding an analysis of and action plan for the Perl documentation as part of the project to make Perl 7 more newcomer-friendly. This work is to begin imminently and should be completed by the end of the year.

[1nickt]

This seems to be fabulous news, not just for the documentation work, but because Google is investing in Perl!

[thomas895]

From the Project Proposal:

The project's goals do not include:

• Any changes made to the websites or other public resources that host, publish, or otherwise make available Perl's documentation.

I'm especially happy to see this. I was afraid this was going to be just a "delete the man pages and make a JavaScript-heavy web docs" type of idea, as we see all too often in other spheres