ZoneMi...Serial(3pm)

okay so this little cutie is called ZoneMi...Serial, and she lives in section 3pm of your manual pages (that's the "user contributed Perl documentation" section, iykyk). She's a Perl module page and honestly? she is a work in progress in the most iconic way. Let's get into it. 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

ZoneMinder::Database — a Perl extension for blah blah blah.

bestie. the blah blah blah is not me being cute. that is literally what it says. 😭

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use ZoneMinder::Database;
blah blah blah

yeah. that's the whole thing. she's mysterious. she's giving less-is-more. 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea: this is stub documentation for ZoneMinder, and it was created by h2xs (that's the tool that spits out a skeleton module for you). And it looks like the author of the extension was negligent enough to leave the stub unedited. Not me saying that — the manpage says that. the manpage is the one throwing shade, I'm just the messenger.

Blah blah blah.

🫶 fr fr that's it. that's the description. the placeholder never got filled in. we've all been there.

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🌸 EXPORT 🌸

None by default.</purl> — wait, no, let me say it properly: None by default.

Translation bestie: nothing gets exported automatically. If you want stuff out of this module you're gonna have to ask for it by name. no freebies. 🎀

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay so this section is also still the template, and the template is basically doing a little to-do list for whoever finishes this page. It says: mention other useful documentation such as the documentation of related modules or operating system documentation (such as man pages in UNIX), or any relevant external documentation such as RFCs or standards. 📚

It also says: if you have a mailing list set up for your module, mention it here. 💌

And: if you have a web site set up for your module, mention it here. 🌐

so like… none of that is filled in yet. it's giving "insert documentation here." the vibe check has not been passed. 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Philip Coombes, <philip.coombes@zoneminder.com> — the icon, the legend, the one who left the stub unedited 😌💅

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Philip Coombes

And the legal bit, word for word, no cap:

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

so yes bestie, it's free software, go wild (within the terms of Perl itself). 🧚

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aaaand that's the whole page! This beauty shipped with perl v5.40.1 and got dated 2026-02-01. Stay slay, finish your stubs, and don't leave your placeholder text out in the wild where everyone can see it. 💜✨

🦋 mwah. 🦋