On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 05:38:13PM -0400, Olaf Alders wrote: > > > 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.
Years ago, Léon Brocard (I think) published a script that did basically explore your disk looking for use lines, and reported them for publication on some dash/leaderboard. A button for manual addition is a good first step, but something automated might give more thorough results. OK, I did a bit of search on use.perl.org, and I found these: - http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_acme/journal/10432.html - http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_acme/journal/10623.html The service is down, but the Internet Archive has some old copies: https://web.archive.org/web/20041010044220/http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/ > 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. Preventing anonymous posts would also prevent some popularity contest and ballot stuffing. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #85 (Epic))
