I guess that answers most of it.
- Of course, we need to make sure that new comers don't just take old
modules (which work very good) and break them
You can never assure that, and who would decide and monitor that
anyway? Even if the module transfers to a new author, the older
versions
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:03 AM, sawyer x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps we do need some added guidelines to CPAN.
My 2 cents: CPAN is fundamentally a free-wheeling, fairly anarchic
place run by volunteers and containing the work of volunteers.
Anything that imposes greater restrictions (a)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:03 AM, sawyer x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps we do need some added guidelines to CPAN.
My 2 cents: CPAN is fundamentally a free-wheeling, fairly anarchic
place run by volunteers and containing the work of volunteers.
Anything that imposes greater restrictions
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, sawyer x wrote:
Perhaps we do need some added guidelines to CPAN.
I think you're trying to fix the problem on the wrong end. Regulating CPAN
would be bad, because we shouldn't have confidence that we'll do a good
job. Making the process of contributing harder would
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:40:09AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
Instead, what I think needs improvement is the search filtering bits.
Frankly, search.cpan needs to be replaced with something much better (and
ya know, open source). I'm not exactly sure what that is though ;)
The open-source
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 16:45]:
It'd probably incorporate some combination of ...
* better search engine (fulltext search of all pod)
* ratings baked right in so you can search based on rating
* trust metrics for authors modules
* some wiki-ish/annocpan-ish thing to
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 16:45]:
It'd probably incorporate some combination of ...
* better search engine (fulltext search of all pod)
* ratings baked right in so you can search based on rating
* trust metrics for authors
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 17:55]:
Note that this differs from ratings, which I don't find very
useful at all.
Agreed. And trust networking is how humans are wired anyway.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 17:55]:
Note that this differs from ratings, which I don't find very
useful at all.
Agreed. And trust networking is how humans are wired anyway.
formal trust metrics can
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:03:32PM +0300, sawyer x wrote:
Perhaps we do need some added guidelines to CPAN.
I don't think so. We just need smarter tools.
the fact that some modules are so outdated they won't work on any
standard system, and there's no way to parse them out in the search
* David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 18:05]:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
* Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 17:55]:
Note that this differs from ratings, which I don't find very
useful at all.
Agreed. And trust
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
formal trust metrics can be gamed. That's also how humans are
wired.
Sure, but not to any useful extent if they are person-centric and
there is no worthwhile gain. There is no spam in my RSS reader
and none in my
* David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-09-22 23:15]:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
formal trust metrics can be gamed. That's also how humans
are wired.
Sure, but not to any useful extent if they are person-centric
and there is no
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