Proposed link on the front page

[andrewsolomon]

At a meeting with TPF's marketing team, people floated the idea of putting a link to https://www.perl.org/learn.html on the front page of https://metacpan.org/ in a blurb along the lines of:

“Just getting started with Perl? Click here for free learning resources from the Perl community.”

Would that be ok?

[oalders]

Sure. I think we could make better use of the space on MetaCPAN and this seems like a good start.

[andrewsolomon]

Thanks for giving that the go ahead Olaf. Would you mind making that change? I had a look at the code and even tried running it on Docker but realised it will be a while before I get my head around how to make that tweak.

[oalders]

Luckily there is no Docker required: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web#installing-manually

Templates are at https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/tree/master/root

[PaulGWebster]

Ah was unsure! I am not up on all the latest UI trends so I assumed it was so it would stand out more as a link :) let me change it

[PaulGWebster]

did not see a point of reposting basically the same screenshot etc, so I removed the [ ] in the previous diff

[PaulGWebster]

so yes, I can post it as an untested pr (due to issues mentioned at the start of this thread) or just leave it as diffs in this thread or if you have any idea how to get either the docker or local build working I can test it then raise it as a tested PR, what would you like me to do :)

[davorg]

Can you push your changes to a GitHub repo (under your account, I guess). I'll download it and try to get it working (probably later this evening).

[PaulGWebster]

sure thing here you are https://github.com/OpusVL/metacpan-web

[oalders]

➜ metacpan-web git:(master) ✗ carton install
➜ metacpan-web git:(master) ✗ yarn install
00h00m00s 0/0: : ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'install'

$ yarn install
yarn install v1.22.11
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚  Fetching packages...
[3/4] 🔗  Linking dependencies...
[4/4] 🔨  Building fresh packages...

✨  Done in 8.94s.

@PaulGWebster which version of yarn do you have installed?

[PaulGWebster]

➜  metacpan-web git:(master) ✗ yarn install
00h00m00s 0/0: : ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'install'
➜  metacpan-web git:(master) ✗ yarn --version
0.32+git

[PaulGWebster]

I just did 'apt install apt nodejs' let me see if I can get a later version

[PaulGWebster]

➜  metacpan-web git:(master) ✗ yarn install
yarn install v1.22.5
[1/4] Resolving packages...
success Already up-to-date.

That helped :)

[PaulGWebster]

Ok dokey I got the non-docker version working, so here is a PR #2607 :)

Please double and triple check this before sending to production! ideally get someone who knows 'less' to check it, it did however add the text you wish in the right place, so ... if not the right 'lessc' command args its very close :)