It both fascinates and baffles me that you seem to believe that it is your place to assess the validity of how people spend their time on projects. Between this and dumping on the idea of improving documentation, it's like you fancy yourself a self-appointed supervisor of Perl projects, and you think everyone must do only those things you consider valid.
What is it that gives you this idea?
And to the others reading this thread, let me make this clear: educated_foo's tactics don't get anything useful done.