forwarding this to cpan-discuss, for issue about 'search.cpan.org' website.
Doug Bell wrote:
On Sep 9, 2016, at 2:33 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
...given that this discussion was redirected to the module-authors group, maybe
this discussion belongs there (nope).
It is confusing, yes, since the integration is good enough to appear seamless, but search.cpan.org is just consuming an API that cpanratings provides.
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That's the rub (since this topic died in discussion, again, I'm
raising it in hopes that someone on the tester's list will raising it
For better or worse, there's a whole ecosystem of different websites that provide
information on CPAN distributions, but that's not important to the question of
"Where do I send a bug report or feature request for cpanratings?"
The issue of fixing something in cpan ratings is a different issue.
The original report was intending to fix "search.cpan.org"'s use
of the data, at all -- not that the data needs to be corrected.
It doesn't really belong there either. You've got to talk to the people running
cpanratings, and they've provided an e-mail and a Github issue tracker to do so.
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Nope -- the decision and placement of the ratings displayed on
search.cpan.org
is in the code for 'search.cpan.org', not cpanratings. What would go into
what is included would be the perview of cpanratings, but I'm trying, at
this point, to get the ratings displayed on "search.cpan.ratings"
removed until
whatever needs to be fixed w/old and outdated and inappropriate reviews
is fixed.
That removal happens on the search.cpan.ratings website which no one
seems to know a venue for.
Does anyone know who is in charge of search.cpan.ratings to tell them
to stop including the problematic code from another site(cpanratings)?
Once the issues with cpanratings are fixed, they can then be inculded
on the search site, but for now, it's like the NYT, including a
regular feed from from a news-rating site that features
South African propaganda.
Until the 3rd-party news-rating site fixes their algorithms to weed
out the undesired propaganda, the NYT shouldn't be running their ratings
feed along with every article.
