Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 07 August 2010 15:56:28 Ovid wrote: - Original Message From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il On Saturday 07 August 2010 00:44:05 Ovid wrote: Laughing at that active_dev tag. What's wrong with it? First, my apologies for being so flippant. That was rude of

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-10 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il I can't tell you how many times I've supplied a complete patch, with tests and documentation, for a known bug in a module and had absolutely no response from the author. If I am willing to do all of that work for them

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-08 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il [2010-08-07 15:15]: There's an easy solution to this problem - have this tag retire after there hasn't been a new release in, say, 6 months. Or maybe we can call it something else. (By retire I mean that search engines, indexers, raters, etc. will ignore it,

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Aristotle, On Sunday 08 August 2010 15:35:33 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il [2010-08-07 15:15]: There's an easy solution to this problem - have this tag retire after there hasn't been a new release in, say, 6 months. Or maybe we can call it something else.

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-08 Thread Corwin Brust
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: By all means active_dev is an indication that the author of the module still has some idea for enhancements (read - not bug fixes or internals cleanup) in the queue, and that you should expect more from him. Maybe wip

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 07 August 2010 00:44:05 Ovid wrote: Laughing at that active_dev tag. What's wrong with it? Some modules are not actively developed, meaning that they have reached API freeze or that the author is happy with them as they are or they are considered deprecated and/or are in a

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 07 August 2010 04:50:29 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com [2010-08-06 23:50]: I can't say I've really been paying attention here, but while some tags (requires C compiler) seem like they might be reasonable, other tags such as black_magic

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-07 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il On Saturday 07 August 2010 00:44:05 Ovid wrote: Laughing at that active_dev tag. What's wrong with it? First, my apologies for being so flippant. That was rude of me and I'm sorry. I just typed what popped into my

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-07 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 07 August 2010 15:56:28 Ovid wrote: - Original Message From: Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il On Saturday 07 August 2010 00:44:05 Ovid wrote: Laughing at that active_dev tag. What's wrong with it? First, my apologies for being so flippant. That was rude of

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-07 Thread Zbigniew Lukasiak
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote: On Saturday 07 August 2010 04:50:29 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com [2010-08-06 23:50]: I can't say I've really been paying attention here, but while some tags (requires C compiler)

The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! Today I converted the Definitive Tags list to a POD-based spec. One can find it inside a Mercurial repository here: http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/rethinking-cpan/src/tip/CPAN-Definitive- Tags/cpan-definitive-tags.pod (Short URL: http://xrl.us/bhvcyb ). Any comments would be welcome.

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 08/06/2010 10:58:02 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! Today I converted the Definitive Tags list to a POD-based spec. One can find it inside a Mercurial repository here: http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/rethinking-cpan/src/tip/CPAN-Definitive- Tags/cpan-definitive-tags.pod (Short URL:

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Bill Ward
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Geoffrey Leach ge...@hughes.net wrote: On 08/06/2010 10:58:02 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! Today I converted the Definitive Tags list to a POD-based spec. One can find it inside a Mercurial repository here:

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Ovid
Cc: rethinking-cpan rethinking-c...@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, 6 August, 2010 18:58:02 Subject: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec Hi all! Today I converted the Definitive Tags list to a POD-based spec. One can find it inside a Mercurial repository here: http://bitbucket.org/shlomif

Re: The CPAN Definitive Tags Spec

2010-08-06 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com [2010-08-06 23:50]: I can't say I've really been paying attention here, but while some tags (requires C compiler) seem like they might be reasonable, other tags such as black_magic seem highly subjective. And the source_filter tag seems to belong in