On 12 Jan 2007, at 14:12, Nicholas Clark wrote:
How in the world could you determine either unloved or unused? And
unupdated certainly doesn't mean that they're not valuable.
It can just mean that they have no known bugs. IIRC MJD cites
Text::Template
as an example of something that people wrongly assume is abandoned
simply
because the most recent release is some time ago.
Sure. For that reason attempting to do any completely automated
garbage collection on CPAN would be fraught - but it might be
possible to automatically identify modules that /might/ be dormant
and then manually sift through them.
I guess there are essentially three categories of module
1 active, maintained
2 actively used, abandoned
3 not used, not maintained
It'd be nice to be able to weed out some of the modules in category 3
and identify cat 2 modules with a view to flagging them as abandoned
so that when/if a new maintainer came along the takeover processes
could be fast tracked.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
