On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Andy Armstrong wrote: > Noise reduction / cage cleaning basically. > > Everything gets archived in backpan anyway - and I'm not necessarily > proposing removing things from CPAN - but if we could add some > metadata about whether a module was actively supported that alone > might be useful for people.
I'll agree more metadata would be helpful, especially if it was meaningful. I'm guessing part of your goal is to improve CPAN searching, which could use some improvements (the search part, not the goal part). > > And actually I'm not really proposing anything concrete - just trying > to work out how we collectively feel on this topic. > My 2 cents is that once it's up on CPAN, it should at least be indexed if not fully indexed and stored like everything currently is. Give the outside developers enough information to find modules to suit their needs, but without any obvious obligation to find the "best" module to suit their needs, since that could be considered presumptuous. -------------------- Christopher Josephes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
