Hi! On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:34:39PM +1000, Rick Measham wrote:
> I really wish there was some method of quality control on CPAN. > .. > This may be because the package is new to CPAN and hasn't been checked > yet, or that there is some concern regarding its use. > .. > While I'm at it, I'd also like module maintainers to authorise any > modules posted below theirs. Thus if I've uploaded Foo::Bar and you > want to upload Foo::Bar::Baz, you'd need my permission. If Dave has > uploaded DateTime and you want to upload DateTime::Event::Easter you > need his permission (or permission from the maintainer of > DateTime::Event (if that exists)) You might want to post your thoughts to the cpan-discuss-list: List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But: AFAIK nobody who's got any say on CPAN things (Jarkko, Andreas Koenig, ..) approve of any restrictions on CPAN, so you're proposals are very unlikly to be accepted (especially the last one). But there are various projects that try to enhance CPAN kwalitee: * CPANTS (see Module::CPANTS::Generator etc on CPAN) * Phalanx (http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/) * CPAN testers * CPAN ratings ... One goal of CPANTS is to generate a lot of metadata, so that users can decied on the basis of this data if they want to install a given module. But most of this is still vaporware (patches welcome!) -- -> Austrian Perl Workshop - 20th-22nd May - http://vienna.pm.org/ <- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
