Basically, the CPAN is ad-hoc. Anyone can do whatever they want.
Other
people have tried to emulate the CPAN, but with restrictions on who
can
upload what, criteria for inclusion and listing, etc. These projects
have been miserable failures.
Or, more succinctly: The CPAN thrives BECAUSE of the unfettered
uploading of shit, not in spite of it.
As an example, WWW::Mechanize has a ton of bugs in RT.
I believe it has zero. However, there are currently 39 in the issue
tracker at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/www-mechanize/issues/list
xoa
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