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15.5 Announcing the Module

Of course, nobody will know that your module exists until they notice it. Your module gets noticed automatically in many places, such as:

  • The "Recent modules" page of http://search.cpan.org

  • The "new modules" section of http://use.perl.org

  • A daily announcement in the "perl news" mailing list

  • An IRC 'bot on a few of the Perl-related IRC channels announces uploads as soon as they become available

  • An update or an uninstalled module in the CPAN shell, CPAN.pm

For greater visibility, you can also prepare a short notice to be posted to the Usenet comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup. Just post the notice, and within a day or two, your news posting will be whisking around to news servers all over the globe.



    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Building Larger Programs
    		Chapter 3. Introduction to References
    		Chapter 4. References and Scoping
    		Chapter 5. Manipulating Complex Data Structures
    		Chapter 6. Subroutine References
    		Chapter 7. Practical Reference Tricks
    		Chapter 8. Introduction to Objects
    		Chapter 9. Objects with Data
    		Chapter 10. Object Destruction
    		Chapter 11. Some Advanced Object Topics
    		Chapter 12. Using Modules
    		Chapter 13. Writing a Distribution
    		Chapter 14. Essential Testing
    		Chapter 15. Contributing to CPAN
    		15.1 The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
    		15.2 Getting Prepared
    		15.3 Preparing Your Distribution
    		15.4 Uploading Your Distribution
    		15.5 Announcing the Module
    		15.6 Testing on Multiple Platforms
    		15.7 Consider Writing an Article or Giving a Talk
    		15.8 Exercise
    		Appendix A. Answers to Exercises