Okay, this is more of a perl culture question than a technical one, but I'm in need of some wisdom nevertheless, so here goes.

I recently posted an article to Usenet asking if anyone would be interested in helping me do a rework of SourceForge.net in Perl. The goal was to take what's good about SF, do it better in Perl, and add other good stuff. The result would be intended to be more easy to install locally (SF is notoriously hard to install on your own server) on an intranet or on the internet (like SF.net is set up now).

See this for the post.

After posting it, though, I got surprisingly little response. I mean, maybe everyone's working on their own projects, but I thought that at least some people would find this interesting enough to talk about. The idea of making an SF-like system that is easier to install and use, AND doing it in Perl, is exciting to me.

What do you think? Am I just easily excited at stupid ideas, or do my Usenet posts have a bad smell?

jpt

edited: Wed Jun 26 15:22:18 2002 by jeffa - shortened link text