Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Andy Lester
On Jun 30, 2008, at 1:08 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: Why is the opinion of someone with no ties to the community considered relevant enough to show in the search.cpan search results? Why do you think the opinion of someone with ties to "the community" (however THAT is defined) is more rele

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Sun, Jun 29 2008, chromatic wrote: > However, does making CPAN a better place require publishing a Hall of Shame > on > perl.org? > > http://cpants.perl.org/highscores/hall_of_shame Good point. The same could be said for CPAN Ratings also. Why should my module have 1 star next to

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 29 June 2008 11:02:17 Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:49 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought the goal of Kwalitee was to identify good free software, not to > > humiliate thousands of other authors of free software for not > > anticipating and working a

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:49 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 June 2008 02:28:54 Thomas Klausner wrote: > >> For example: >> http://cpants.perl.org/kwalitee.html#no_cpants_errors >> no_cpants_errors >> Shortcoming: Some errors occured during CPANTS testing. They might >

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 29 June 2008 02:28:54 Thomas Klausner wrote: > For example: > http://cpants.perl.org/kwalitee.html#no_cpants_errors > no_cpants_errors > Shortcoming: Some errors occured during CPANTS testing. They might > be caused by bugs in CPANTS or some strange features of this > d

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The goal of deducting a kwalitee point for 'no_cpants_errors' is to get > authors to report CPANTS bugs. Why do you need authors to report those? After a run, you have a list of all of the errors already.

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-29 10:55]: > --- On Sat, 28/6/08, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think the game is actually an excellent idea. The problem is >> with the metrics. Here are some metrics that are inarguably >> good: >> >> • has_buildtool >> • extracts_nicely >

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:54:19AM -0700, Ovid wrote: > On a side note, I still don't understand why I sometimes get dinged for > CPANTs errors. > > Here's one for HOP-Lexer (http://cpants.perl.org/dist/errors/HOP-Lexer): > > STDERR: Invalid row in Debian file: "libhtml-wikiconverter-mo

Re: About tidying up Kwalitee metrics

2008-06-29 Thread Ovid
--- On Sat, 28/6/08, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the game is actually an excellent idea. The problem is > with the metrics. Here are some metrics that are inarguably good: > > • has_buildtool > • extracts_nicely > • metayml_conforms_to_known_spec One problem with thi