Hi Neil, happy holidays.
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:05:03 +0000 Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > At the London Perl Workshop I gave a talk on the CPAN River, and how > development and release practices should mature as a dist moves up river. > This was prompted by the discussions we had at Berlin earlier this year. > > Writing the talk prompted a bunch of ideas, one of which is having a “water > quality” metric, which gives some indication of whether a dist is a good one > to rely on (needs a better name). I’ve come up with a first definition, and > calculated the metric for the different stages of the river: > > http://neilb.org/2015/12/22/cpan-river-water-quality.html > > Any thoughts on what factors should be included in such a metric? I think it > should really include factors that it would be hard for anyone to argue with. > Currently the individual factors are: > > Not having too many CPAN Testers fails > Having a META.json or META.yml file > Specifying the min perl version required for the dist > I had put my thoughts about this in my CPAN Module-Rank document as part of the Rethinking-CPAN initiative: * https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/rethinking-cpan/src/a4c4eec3d769089a6a2664649f103a16e9690a8b/CPAN-Module-Rank/cpan-module-rank.pod?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish There is an IGLU Cabal, but its only purpose is to deny the existence of an IGLU Cabal. — Martha Greenberg
