> On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > >>> PAUSE doesn’t (currently) know the river position, but if it published >>> a feed of deletion-schedulings, then some third-party agent could >>> monitor the feed and check for dists that are on river. I think those >>> are the dists that should be alerted to modules@ […] Obviously the >>> issue here is DarkPAN: a dist might not have any CPAN dependents, but >>> may be used plenty out in the big bad world. That’s a separate problem >>> :-) >> >> I don’t think so. Plack::Middleware::Rewrite is used by a ton of people >> and klaxons certainly ought to ring if I ever opened up that namespace. >> The number of on-CPAN dependents is just 3 though. > > The key word in what I said was *any*. I think even 3 dependents should > klaxon. > Plus having any favourites on CPAN should also prompt the klaxon as well: I > use favourites as a proxy for “has dependents” in both the adoption list and > weighting dists for the PRC, and it seems to work. > > I still think we need a service where you can say “I’m using this dist”. I > think I’ll add that feature to the dashboard, which I’ll be working on at the > QAH.
This would be pretty easy to bolt onto MetaCPAN. I was already considering something like this to run parallel to ++ where ++ means "I recommend this" and there's some alternate symbol for saying "I use this". This would make it easy to have a script that would scan deps in apps and add them to your "I use this" list in MetaCPAN. Then, if you're planning on making a controversial change to module Y, you have a list of users whom you can warn or poll for advice. Olaf
