[Dancer-users] Two years of Dancer!

[sawyer x]

Here here! Happy birthday! \o/

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk>wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Today marks two years to the day since the first version of Dancer hit
> CPAN!
>
> According to the BackPAN, Dancer-0.9003.tar.gz hit CPAN on 07-Aug-2009.[1]
>
> I think you'll agree we've come a long way since then, thanks to the
> awesome
> community and user base built up around the project since then.
>
> In these two years, we've had countless valuable contributions from a large
> list of contributing users (see the list on the about page[2]), gathered
> over
> 300 watchers on GitHub, had 84 people fork the repository on GitHub, had
> 620
> pull requests submitted... amazing stuff.
>
> We've seen a wide range of awesome Dancer plugins[3] appear on CPAN.
>
> We've seen Dancer presented at various conferences including FOSDEM,
> OSDC.fr,
> the French Perl Workshop, the Bulgaria Perl Workshop, PyWeb IL (a Israeli
> Python group).
>
> We've seen screencasts on using Dancer (thanks Gabor!), we've seen Dancer
> discussed plenty within the Perl community with plenty of helpful
> suggestions.
>
> Unfortunately, we've also seen some trolling from someone who, for reasons
> unknown, seems to take a strong dislike to the project - puzzling.
>
> As a result of some of the trolling which included fake reviews falsely
> attributed to members of the Sinatra team, we've seen our initial
> inspiration,
> Ruby's Sinatra project, release a statement proclaiming that "Sinatra Loves
> Dancer"[4].
>
>
> So, to celebrate Dancer's 2nd birthday, I think a little marketing effort
> would be good - I'd like to invite you all to let the world know what yout
> think!  Do you use Dancer?  Do you like it?  Let people know - blog about
> it,
> tweet about it, leave positive reviews & ratings on cpanratings.perl.org[5]
> or
> +1's on MetaCPAN[6] - however you like.
>
> (If you leave reviews/+1's, feel free to also do so for any Dancer plugins
> you
> find helpful, too - they need the love too! :) )
>
> Also, if you don't already, please "watch" the Dancer project on GitHub[7]
> -
> just go to the project page and click the "Watch" button near the top.
>
> Pithy quotes on what you like about Dancer suitable for inclusion on
> www.perldancer.org/testimonials would be very welcome, too :)
>
> Also, we've come a long way, but we have a long way to go, too - we have
> some
> great improvements to Dancer planned, but suggestions for new features
> would
> be very welcome - it's always good to know what users would like to see!
>
> So, happy birthday Dancer, and happy dancing, community!
>
> And, of course, an invitation - if you're interested in Dancer, but aren't
> already part of the vibrant welcoming community in the #dancer IRC channel
> on
> irc.perl.org, feel free to join us - see http://www.perldancer.org/irc for
> a
> web chat client if you don't use IRC normally.
>
> [1] http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SU/SUKRIA/
> [2] http://www.perldancer.org/about
> [3] http://p3rl.org/Dancer::Plugins (update due in next release, btw)
> [4] http://www.sinatrarb.com/2011/07/21/sinatra-loves-dancer.html
> [5] http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Dancer
> [6] https://metacpan.org/module/Dancer
> [7] https://github.com/sukria/Dancer
>
>
> (I also posted this to my own blog at:
>
> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/2011/08/happy-birthday-dancer/
>
>  - we need to get the Dancer project blog up and running, I'll make serious
> efforts to get that sorted in the next few days.)
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave P
>
>
> --
> David Precious  ("bigpresh")
> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/
>
>   "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support
>   it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)
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