The PRC and kwalitee

2015-12-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Given an email I had off-list, I’ll clarify something related to the PR challenge (PRC): Through the year I had the occasional email from *authors* whose distributions had been assigned, and who got a PR that addressed kwalitee fails and nothing else. They weren’t happy with these PRs. Recentl

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread Neil Bowers
> CPANdeps (http://deps.cpantesters.org) has been providing useful > information on water quality. It might be enough to make a better or > opinionated presentation of it for the upriver authors. IMHO META > files and min version specification depends more on when a > distribution is released and d

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread Sawyer X
[top-posted] Further context as someone maintaining distributions with long-running issues. There are many reasons an issue could stay open for a long time: * It requires much more consideration (and could relate to multiple branches of reference implementation or different steps along the way) *

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
[top postet] I agree with all of the reasons and could add even more. Measuring the take-care of issues automatically would need a standardization of best practices, e.g.: - before: need more info, not reproducable, not a bug, wishlist, new feature - severity: critical, important, normal, minor,

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread Karen Etheridge
> I think “has a META.yml or META.json” is worth keeping in I'm surprised this one is being discussed at all. IMO, not having a META file should disqualify the distribution from being considered at all. At Berlin last year we talked about making it mandatory, and held off "for now" so the outliers

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread Sawyer X
I have to agree with that, albeit probably less angry about it. :) On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: > > I think “has a META.yml or META.json” is worth keeping in > > I'm surprised this one is being discussed at all. IMO, not having a META > file should disqualify the distr

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread Kenichi Ishigaki
2015-12-25 3:00 GMT+09:00 Karen Etheridge : >> I think “has a META.yml or META.json” is worth keeping in > > I'm surprised this one is being discussed at all. IMO, not having a META > file should disqualify the distribution from being considered at all. At > Berlin last year we talked about making

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-24 Thread David Golden
I'm mostly surprised at the way-upriver distributions that lack it. I wonder how many of those are dual-life that don't ship with the kind of tooling that "CPAN best practice" use. David On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Kenichi Ishigaki wrote: > 2015-12-25 3:00 GMT+09:00 Karen Etheridge : > >>