I think both of these ideas sound great. I think Michael's got the long term solution and Gabor has the short term solution. Both are probably needed to get this idea off the ground. People need to realize the idea's usefulness then you're not having to 'FORCE' them per-se to add tags at build time.
So I think it's still left to a short discussion as to if/when/how the META.yml tags get used. Do they override the ones manually entered? Do they compliment them? Does one have a higher weight than the other? > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabor Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:35 AM > To: Michael G Schwern > Cc: List - Module-Build; makemaker; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SPAM] Re: Tags for CPAN modules. > > On 7/8/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's un-overload the distribution name by providing > another axis by > > which an author can categorize their module. The single > most dominant > > organizational tool of the web: tags. For a large, wide, > > decentralized library its simple and the least worst way to > organize > > things. It provides multiple axis to describe the use of a > module and > > frees up the name to be just a short, unique descriptor. Best > > practices for tags and how to work their strengths and > weaknesses are well understood. > > > > The implementation is simple, add a "tags" keyword to > META.yml. Have > > search.cpan.org so something interesting with that extra > information. > > While I think it would be good and module author could then > give some authoritative tags to their modules it would still > be the job of the module author. > > Many modules, especially the some old ones that are not > maintained will lack the keywords even if otherwise they are > perfect modules. > > > Anyway I have just a few days ago added a tagging system to > http://www.cpanforum.org/ to tag the modules. > In a few weeks I'll provide some way to download the > collected data and then it could be integrated in any search engine. > > Some tags that were already added: > http://www.cpanforum.org/tags/ > > Using such an external tagging system will get the load off > the module authors. > > Still,one of the my plans is to connect the tags to the PAUSE > ids as well so tags added by the maintainer of a module can > be evaluated differently than those of other module authors > or just regular mortals. > > Even if in the tags will be added to META.yml this system can > be used to learn about tagging preferences in the CPAN namespace. > > Gabor >
