Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.
* David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-13 13:55]: branding good things This is the one thing I think is in fact harmful – not for blockbuster modules with 500,000 users, of course, but in the long tail, where a useful name will likely make the difference between 5 users and 80. And the CPAN is all about the long tail. Boring and descriptive beats cute and creative in naming a CPAN-scale number of things. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/
Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.
Aristotle == Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aristotle You only just noticed that? Also, does it impact you in any Aristotle meaningful way that LEOCHARRE and MIKER uploaded things of Aristotle questionable interest? At least it's not Meta:: all over again. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion
Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.
As someone who claimed a top level CPAN domain and have been uploading things into it since (Tipjar::) some time ago, the reasons are: (1) branding good things (2) not sure if my basic things deserve to be at top level status (tipjar::fields) which is a policy I have abandoned (Macrame)
Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.
On Oct 12, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Thompson wrote: It just seems to me to be a bad way to maintain an orderly repository. I don't see that top-level names mean anything. It's not like anyone browses through them. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Chris Thompson wrote: I'm not someone who wants to see a hard exclusion on uploads, nor the thought of some sort of policing, but this seems to be a bit ridiculous, no? It just seems to me to be a bad way to maintain an orderly repository. Any thoughts? Well, it seems better in some ways that uploading them to real namespaces and confusing newbies who might look at them. I think the MYNAME prefix will hopefully discourage people from using them. I don't know why people bother uploading this stuff in the first place, especially Leo Charre, but I think I'd rather see it under LEOCHARRE::Test than Test::RandomJunk. Of course, I'd really rather people put some thought into building coherent APIs and naming, but that's obviously not going to happen for many uploads ;) -dave /* http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) */
Re: What's up with all these people uploading stuff under their own name.
* Chris Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-10-13 04:30]: What's up with people creating their own top level namespace and, at least in some of the LEOCHARRE stuff, uploading things of marginal usefulness. You only just noticed that? Also, does it impact you in any meaningful way that LEOCHARRE and MIKER uploaded things of questionable interest? It just seems to me to be a bad way to maintain an orderly repository. 90% of everything is crap. The CPAN is no exception. But since we let people put very nearly anything on CPAN, the absolute number of things on it is huge, and 10% of that is still a big number. That is why the CPAN is useful. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/
