On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:43:13AM +, Tim Bunce wrote:
Argues for more stats. I think useful *relative* download stats
could be extracted from a sample of CPAN sites. Also search.cpan.org
could provide relative page-*view* stats for modules.
Agreed. There is the mirrors problem of course,
Hi,
I think an interesting angle, first to get an idea of what the problem is,
and later (hopefully!) to see if we have improved the situation, is to put
ourselves in the position of a Perl programer that doesn't know the
community, maybe doesn't even know that CPAN exists.
Her first reflex
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Generating the doc (from the POD) for each module (with a link to the
tarfile or to the CPAN search page for the lates release of the module),
and putting it on CPAN in something like cpan.org/docs/module name.
Does
On 16 Feb 2004, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Rodriguez) writes:
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If size is a problem for mirrors, then a shorter version, with just links
to the docs, would work, maybe the search.cpan.org results for example:
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.40/ could be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Rodriguez) writes:
I guess it becomes a social (for lack of a better term) instead of a
technical issue: this is what we should link to when we want to reference
a module.
This is in fact the policy I've been using for perl.com for a while now.
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A word to the
* Michel Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-16 10:57]:
(At least the Perl-XML folks got it right, props to Grant
McLean!).
You don't put yourself in a particular spot on Google, you just
get there by being linked from lots of places. You have zero
control over whether and where you appear in
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:37:12AM +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:32, Tim Bunce wrote;
I'd like to see a summary of what those needs of the community
are. (Maybe I missed it as I've not been following as closely as
I'd have liked. In which case a link to an
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Michel Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-16 10:57]:
(At least the Perl-XML folks got it right, props to Grant
McLean!).
You don't put yourself in a particular spot on Google, you just
get there by being linked from lots of places. You have
* Michel Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-16 13:43]:
Then the problem is why don't those pages show up higher when
you search on google? They come back fast enough, I suppose
they are static, can anyone confirm this?
Again this is not a factor. All you have to do is make sure you
don't use
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:53, A. Pagaltzis wrote;
(At least the Perl-XML folks got it right, props to Grant
McLean!).
You don't put yourself in a particular spot on Google, you just
get there by being linked from lots of places. You have zero
control over whether and where you
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 01:32, Tim Bunce wrote;
I'd like to see a summary of what those needs of the community
are. (Maybe I missed it as I've not been following as closely as
I'd have liked. In which case a link to an archived summary would
be great.)
It's very important to be clear
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Sam Vilain wrote:
who are experts in the field, will truly perform this task - and that
to gain maximum support, that it should be included in the content
mirrored along with the rest of cpan.org.
I like what you're proposing, but I think the best way to do this is to
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