I don't know that the two need to be related. Strictly speaking, modules don't really have anything to do with a "community". community is all about discussing and sharing what you've done and feeling warm and fuzzy. there's a lot of fluff in that sentence that doesn't help the process of finding and installing modules quickly and easily. the website for the module repository should be all about modules, nothing more.
consider the standpoint of an end user trying to get some software working, they don't want to have to dig through a website just to get to the point where they can find modules. Now, if there were a link between the two, that would be fine, but consider this:
cpan.org vs pike-community.org/modules vs pmod.org
that's over 3 times as much typing. most users are far too lazy to go through the trouble. unless there's a compelling reason to do something, the path of least trouble usually wins out. unfortunately, pike is not such a dominant force (yet) that we can afford to make things difficult on end users.
please don't take this to mean that I don't think community is important. i spent years trying to develop a roxen/caudium community website, and frankly, the results weren't spectacular. I just don't think we should shoot ourselves in the foot by trying to have one website that does everything for everyone.
just my 2 cents :)
bill
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, David Gourdelier wrote:
www.pikemodules.org www.pikeprawn.org www.pmods.org
$ whois pike-community.org Status:CLIENT HOLD Status:PENDING DELETE [snip] Registrant ID:23532171-NSI Registrant Name:Idonex AB Registrant Organization:Idonex AB Registrant Street1:Box 449 Registrant City:Linkoping Registrant Postal Code:58105 Registrant Country:SE Registrant Email:zino@LYSATOR.LIU.SE
I'd vote for a pike community website and a section in this website devoted to external modules.