Hi, At the start of each CPAN module review I do, there is a table of summary information for all the modules reviewed. Ron suggested that the module which builds up this information be released to CPAN. See an example at http://neilb.org/reviews/constants.html
At the moment this is part of the mash of code I use to construct the reviews, but I could pull it out to a small distribution, which would probably have two modules in it: One which talks to MetaCPAN, gets the RT summary file, and talks to the CPAN dependencies service. The other which is a data object, one per module. At the moment I have everything internally under a CPAN::Curation:: namespace, but if released separately I don't think that's appropriate. CPAN::Module::Metadata for the data class? CPAN::Module::GetMetadata for the builder? CPAN::Module::Metadata::Factory? I don't really like the second name, but can't think of a better one off the cuff. There are a number of modules which do related things, but I couldn't find one which does this, when I started. Questions: Is there an appropriate module / distribution that this could be fit into? Does this make sense to have as a separate dist? What are good names for the two classes? cheers, Neil
