Christopher Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: *>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Gabor Szabo wrote: *>>Do we really need reviews ? *> *>Short of some better sort of solution for helping guide people to the *>better choices of modules.
Writing a useful analysis, good or bad, pro or con, takes a lot of time, thought and energy which few seem to take into consideration when writing them. There are a number of objective points that users could use to judge a module without including the wildly subjective view of people with a grudge or an axe to grind. Just about every argument for the rantings has included the 'think of the newbies!' angle and, for the most part, I think this is a red herring as people who can't point and click, can't distinguish a useful review from a flawed review or can't figure out what a module does without reading the documentation [if it has any] just aren't going to benefit from something like cpanrantings. I might also add that those who push this argument the most vehemently are the least likely to post reviews or even articulate ones. I have pushed before and will continue to push the concept of author bundles and SDK-esque bundles where a group of valued, quality and well regarded modules could be trivially batch installed by users via cpan.pm or cpanplus. The problem with cpanrantings is /not/ software. e.
