Hi Aristotle,
On Sunday 08 August 2010 15:35:33 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> [2010-08-07 15:15]:
> > There's an easy solution to this problem - have this tag retire
> > after there hasn't been a new release in, say, 6 months. Or
> > maybe we can call it something else. (By retire I mean that
> > search engines, indexers, raters, etc. will ignore it, not that
> > it will be physically removed from the META.yml).
> >
> > * Ovid <publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com> [2010-08-07 15:01]:
> > > On a related note, I've not made a new release of
> > > Sub::Override in 5 years because it's complete and apparently
> > > correct. Is it actively developed or not?
> >
> > Maybe I wasn't clear enough in the SPEC, but it wouldn't be
> > "def/active_dev" because it's not constantly enhanced. What
> > I meant by "active_dev" is that the module is constantly
> > enhanced / expanded / etc.
>
> Oh ho. Shlomi, meet Mark Jason. Mark, meet Shlomi.
>
> http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-9
>
Yes, I'm familiar with what MJD says there (and even attended the original
presentation that he gave at the first YAPC::Israel). I didn't intend the lack
of active_dev and the fact that a module is "complete" and has a stable and
non-expanding API to be an indication of being somehow bad. By all means
active_dev is an indication that the author of the module still has some idea
for enhancements (read - not bug fixes or internals cleanup) in the queue, and
that you should expect more from him.
I didn't mean to imply that a module with a stable API has been abandoned or
is not recommended.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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