Smylers wrote:
[stuff about detecting "dead" modules]
I'm not entirely sure what problem you're trying to solve here. But
that's largely irrelevant -- because however good your idea is, there's
bound to be somebody in the Perl community questioning it or objecting
to it! So don't wait for approval: just do it, whatever "it" is, then
show folks.
One thing that makes it difficult to play along at home is that there's
no easy way to obtain a dump of the cpan.org RT tickets, short of
violently scraping a web server that's already slow enough as it is.
If one could obtain a tarball of a tab-delimited file containing
o RT id
o status
o last update
o distribution
o subject
of all tickets, or all non-resolved tickets, well there's a language
that's good at munging such data and producing all kinds of interesting
reports. Is Jesse Vincent the person to ask for this?
David
