So, I've finally joined the Perl Group within Debian. I thought it'd be a difficult thing to do, but no... it's not. My biggest misunderstanding of the process is that I thought I needed to be a Debian Developer (DD) to join a group. Nay! You just have to have a clue. I requested assistance to gain that clue and was happily greeted with "clue". Go to a page and read about it. Then let them know you created a new user in the system. Ta-da!
So now I begin lurking and watching the group. I'm not going to do anything yet until I observe a bit about how they go about getting things done. I'd rather not look like an idiot straight away.
In my observation thus far, I've noticed a Perl module that I'd never seen before: Net::DRI. Someone had just packaged it and submitted it to the group. Basically this module is the equivalent to DBD, but for domain registry company interfaces. It makes a single API to abstract all the different APIs provided by various registrars. Very nice! I haven't given it a shot yet, but the idea just sounds genius. Who knows, maybe I'll even submit some code to handle the registrars I use.
So now I begin lurking and watching the group. I'm not going to do anything yet until I observe a bit about how they go about getting things done. I'd rather not look like an idiot straight away.
In my observation thus far, I've noticed a Perl module that I'd never seen before: Net::DRI. Someone had just packaged it and submitted it to the group. Basically this module is the equivalent to DBD, but for domain registry company interfaces. It makes a single API to abstract all the different APIs provided by various registrars. Very nice! I haven't given it a shot yet, but the idea just sounds genius. Who knows, maybe I'll even submit some code to handle the registrars I use.
