On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, darren chamberlain wrote: > It seems to me that part of the problem is that modules don't contain > enough metadata. This is starting to change, with META.yaml support > being added to the CPAN indexer, but there is still not enough.
Does anybody have a list of modules that are currently being updated that don't contain META.yaml files? My local CPAN mirror is offline because of "disk issues" at the moment so I couldn't even check this myself if I had time. :) > I think it would be interesting for someone to set up a site where > people can add and edit module metadata. So, for example, when someone > discovers a module they'd never heard of that does something neat, they > can add the metadata that would have helped them find the module in the > first place. Yes, yes, yes. Do it and I will contribute! > For bonus points, make this metadata exportable as YAML so that it could > be searched locally. Perhaps this metadata file could be updated daily > and distributed via CPAN or SourceForge. Users could use CPAN::Metadata > (or whatever) to search the metadata. That's brilliant. Who's going to do it?!!?!? -- </chris> The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -Robert Maynard Hutchins, educator (1899-1977)
