On Aug 13, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > I don't think there's an official community, so I don't think we can have an > official community site.
Don’t Ask and Robert manage the machines that search.perl.org is on? Or is that just DNS? > I switched all my Pod-to-HTML stuff, like dzil.org's engine, the Perl Advent > calendar, and perl release announcements, to using metacpan some time ago. > metacpan is open source and can be contributed to with patches, which means, > to > me, that it's more likely to be a community effort than search.cpan.org. > > So, I am in favor of the change. Rejecting it isn't a big deal, I think, but > I > predict that it will just end up being accepted in the future. Could be. But I think the ability for users to easily supply whatever URL they want would be better. Then it would matter less (and I suspect that Graham would have to change the search.cpan.org code so that its URLs are still local). Best, David