Neglected tutorials?

[dbwiz]

Dear brethren,

Having made friar recently, I went through my newly acquired duties and considered all the nodes that still lie in nodes to consider, waiting for final decisions.

What struck me as strange is that there are so many posts submitted for Tutorials and still pending decision.

I don't know exactly how the acceptance process should go. I am referring to footpad's Updating the Tutorials Node.

It seems that the process of promoting to Tutorials has been somehow stopped or delayed. Either way, many posts deserving further consideration are still in limbo.

In an attempt to facilitate the task of the ones who can solve this problem, I made a summary of the current status (as of today).

footpad's criteria state that a minimum of 20 rep should indicate enough acceptance from the community to stick a permanent "tutorial" label on such node. I didn't report the actual rep in my table, but a range, to give an idea of the general feeling on that node. While I believe that a node reputation is not a guarantee of its value, a minimum of upvotes is an indication that at least a few people have a positive opinion on that node.

Enough talking. Here's the raw data. Have your say.

The nodes are listed in the order they are in nodes to consider. The first ones are those that have been waiting longer.

author	title	rep range	keep	edit	delete
diotalevi	/o is dead, long live qr//!	101-150	14	70	0
gmax	Vim for PerlMonks nodes	76-100	11	53	1
waxmop	Why you should use strict	0-10	25	38	1
demerphq	LZW Demystified	76-100	12	54	1
gmax	Speeding up the DBI	101-150	0	77	1
svsingh	(Not Quite Perl) Running Scripts from Right-Click Context Menu in Windows	76-100	10	31	1
trs80	Class::DBI Intro	26-50	6	38	1
trs80	HTML::Tree(Builder) in 6 minutes	76-100	9	52	1
RMGir	An introduction to POE	26-50	5	42	1
gmax	Handling huge BLOB fields with DBI and MySQL	101-150	3	39	0
woolfy	Where and how to start learning Perl	101-150	5	54	0
chunlou	Perl & Math: A Quick Reference (1)	101-150	9	46	0
gmax	DBI recipes	> 150	3	67	1
broquaint	Perl Idioms Explained - $|++	51-75	5	40	0
broquaint	Perl Idioms Explained - keys %{{map{$_=>1}@list}}	101-150	5	41	0
broquaint	Perl Idioms Explained - ${\$obj->method} and @{[sort @list]}	101-150	6	42	0
ybiC	Install parallel Perl on Debian	26-50	7	48	1
davido	Installing Perl on the Sharp Zaurus PDA	101-150	10	60	3
liz	Things you need to know before programming Perl ithreads	101-150	11	29	0
jeffa	Perl Idioms Explained - my $string = do { local $/; <FILEHANDLE> }; (2)	101-150	0	4	0

notes
¹ About possible problems with this node, though, read On deleting node contents.
² This one was submitted for consideration only today

edited: Sun Sep 7 16:30:47 2003 by jeffa - added readmore tag

[jeffa]

DONE!

I added them all except waxmop's Why you should use strict. It had about 38 edit votes, 25 keep votes, 1 delete vote and a rep way less than 20.

I also added a new top level section: Perl Idioms Explained as well as a sub section under Getting Started with Perl: "Perl Installation".

I hope that everyone is happy with this. I will be glad to make any corrections.

jeffa

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[benn]

It's the whole Tutorial update process that seems to have stopped. There are *many* tutorials that were posted as such (rather than Meditations etc. considered for movement) that have not been added to the main page also - so many, in fact, that I begin to wonder whether Tutorials should be split up into separate sub-category pages, rather than all (or not, as the case may be :) ) on one page.

Personally, I find Tutorials can be one of the most useful sections in the Monastery - in fact, I nearly wrote something similar to this very Discussion a couple of weeks ago when I got frustrated looking for An introduction to POE - something that took a Super Search to find, which seemed a needless waste of resources.

Cheers, Ben.