On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Paul Fenwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a good solution is to add a new category called "honours". It is an > honour to have your module packaged by Debian, included in the ActiveState > distro, or to be used by another CPAN module. For honours, we only mention > what honours a module has received, not what it hasn't. For example, an > honours list may read: > > * Packaged by Debian. > * Included with ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 > * Given a 5 star review on cpanratings > > The important thing is that the list doesn't mention all the honours that > haven't been received (packaged by RedHat, sent to the moon, included as a > dual-life core module etc). Honours don't contribute to the kwalitee score. > > The end result is authors feel good about their honours page (it doesn't > show at all if there are no honours), the kwalitee metrics continue to > measure things an author can reasonably fix, and end-developers using CPANTS > for research won't be turned off by a large number of red 'optional metrics' > from an otherwise excellent module.
Sounds like a good idea! We were also thinking with Thomas on how to mark the other 3 debian related metrics to be dependent on the "packaged_by_debian" metric. After all if the module is not packaged by debian then the other 3 have no meaning. So if a module is packaged by debian it will get it "packaged_by_debian" "honour" metric turned on. Then she will also see 3 new metrics where she has partial control. e.g. she can fetch the patch include it in the official distribution on CPAN and notify the Debian maintainers to upgrade. Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
