Re: Updating http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html

Oh, god, someone did a bad thing and forwarded me an email from this  
infernal list that I had been blissfully unsubscribed to for...well,  
a really long time now. In spite of having given birth and spending  
the past 18 months being a mum I have not completely lost my  
character so those who are sensitive to my usual missives should  
probably brace yourselves.

Firstly, I have waited for a very long time for maintainers to step  
up for a number of things, including the history project. Perhaps I  
should write a manual with RULE NUMBER ONE: DON'T INSULT THE PROJECT  
YOU ARE WANTING TO ASSUME CONTROL OF AND CLAIM YOU TRIED TO GET IN  
TOUCH WITH ONE OF THE MOST EASILY FOUND PEOPLE ON THE NET BUT SOMEHOW  
MANAGED TO FAIL. What, do I have to expain this to you idiots? Do you  
bitch about a meal from your mother and offer to recook it, too? Not  
to mention, my email address is everywhere (and plenty of other  
people manage to find me daily) and while I probably should have your  
address on a kill filter, I don't as I have better things to do these  
days.

"In any case, I first want to get the legal status of the document  
cleared
before we wikify it."

NO.

I'd welcome an update to the HTML if it has fallen out of valid HTML.  
I'd welcome updated links for dead ones and I'd welcome a new version  
with events up to the current time. I would not be interested  
currently in opening it up to a wiki to a throng of people who either  
have an agenda or no idea just how much time it takes/took to prepare  
a document like this.

Send me something I can look at and update the site with, otherwise  
I'm simply not interested.

As ever, don't talk about a patch, send me a patch and we'll see.

Grumpily,

e.