I tend to agree with all your points, but want to encourage more discussion.
2010/1/19 Burak Gürsoy <burakgur...@gmx.net>: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nigel Horne [mailto:n...@bandsman.co.uk] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:23 PM >> To: cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org >> Subject: Unsupported CPAN Modules > >> a) Users should be warned when attempting to download/install > > Bad idea. Some Catalyst fanboi is spamming CPAN Ratings for similar reasons. "warn" does sound like overkill. but imagine if a distribution fails its own test suite on all platforms tested for a year or more, or some other criteria. Then it might be nice to make such knowledge more known. If the author is looking, they will see it. If the naive are looking, they will see it. How about posting ONE bug report each year where the author recommends that such reports go? It may be programmatic, but I do not see it as spam. Maybe there are other better ways. Or different criteria. Seems to me, this is what testing is about. > >> This could also raise the profile of cpan-testers. >> >> -Nigel I support the cpan-testers profile being raised in a positive way.
