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A list of companies which use Perl. Initially generated from postings to jobs.perl.org.
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hiring_status and most_recent_posting are proxies? #39

Closed adamc00 closed 11 years ago

adamc00 commented 11 years ago

Given the goal of the list is to allow it to be updated by means other than activity on jobs.perl.org it would appear that hiring_status is a proxy for perl_usage_status (or something) and most_recent_posting is a proxy for status_determined_year (or something).

It would be good to rename these fields to reflect their desired meaning as opposed to their proxy variables upon the list being seeded in order to encourage appropriate updates.

At the moment I am faced with telling white lies to update our status since we are an active Perl company but haven't hired recently via jobs.perl.org due to low staff turnover.

vmbrasseur commented 11 years ago

Yes, @adamc00, I wholeheartedly agree that this fieldname is a proxy for its eventual intended purpose.

I've registered perlcompanies.org and will (again, eventually) be serving up the data from that location at some point. When that happens the field will be changed to better reflect the "most recently known activity" status which you've mentioned.

In the meantime, I'm going to close this issue. While it may have a "wontfix" status, please consider it a "willfixlater". :)