Re: Kwalitee metric: Community support channels

[Adam Kennedy]

Salve J Nilsen wrote:
Just a wild thought...
Would it be useful to check for references to community support channels 
like mailing lists, IRC channels, public bug trackers and official web 
pages?

One way to do this could be to look for relevant keywords in the 
META.yml file or to do simple scanning of a SUPPORT section in the POD...

Is this feasible?

Not really.

At an implementation level, META.yml would need support for that sort of 
things.

At a purely social level, not every module needs to have IRC channels 
and official web pages.

The presence of lack thereof is more an indication of the scale and 
importance of the module, rather than anything you can judge all 10k 
modules by.

If at all possible, I'd like to see any new CPANTS metrics being about 
things that are well studied, and that are fairly universally agreed to 
be applicable to all 10,000 modules.

Adam K