I got two replies privately from Boyd Duffee and from Francisco Rivas. We got a couple of ideas together for ways to focus on the important releases:
- Pick the most popular modules (based on +-es on MetaCPAN) that have a new release. - Pick the modules that most other modules rely on. ( similar to, or based on the Volatile 100 of Adam Kennedy http://ali.as/top100 /index.html ) - Pick distros where the distro size changed a lot - Pick distros where the change diff is the largest in percentage of distro size. - Pick the modules that did not have a new version for a long time but now they have one. - Pick modules that are new to CPAN Other ideas? Maybe volunteers who would like to implement a script fetching the above lists? It could be a fun mash-up of MetaCPAN, search.cpan.org and maybe the database Alias has. regards Gabor On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > I am sure many of you already read about the Perl Weekly > http://perlweekly.com/ > and are subscribed to it. If not yet, do it now, I'll wait. > > The thing is that several people have already asked me to > add a section reporting about interesting new CPAN uploads. > On a rainy day there can be 50 new CPAN uploads which > means there can be around 350 uploads a week. > Give or take a few hundred. > I would need to pick 3-5 a week to mention. > > I cannot possibly look through all the 350 uploads let alone understand > most of the modules or even the changes they made. > > So I wonder if you have some ideas what should I do or how should I do? > > Maybe there could be a few people cooperating on this. Each one of us taking > one day and pointing out the 1-3 modules where the recent changes seems to > be especially important. > The we would write a few lines about the module to be included in the > Perl Weekly. > > Maybe you'd have a better idea how to handle this quest? > > regards > Gabor > ps. don't forget to subscribe to the Perl Weekly: http://perlweekly.com/ >
