On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:10:40PM +1000, Adam Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So once you find out DBIx::Wango only passed 7 out of 23, it will go > into the author's average, and if he ever looks presumably the > competative spirit will kick in and he's fix some of the "problems"
But will the author actually care? Will the author even know this exists? Are you going to send email to Bob and say "Hey, Bob, you only passed 7 of 23 things"? What's Bob going to say in return? I see a couple of options: * Nothing, not even seeing the email as interesting. * "Hey, that's pretty cool, I'm going to change my code!" * "Yeah, so what?" * "Fuck you, you high-and-mighty assholes of correctness! I put something on CPAN for people to use and you jerks come along and tell me that I don't meet your oh-so-high standards!" I would SERIOUSLY recommend that before anything goes further that people look at the end result of what they're trying to acheive. I'm suggesting that you actually draft the email, or mock up the web page, or whatever it may be, communicating the failings of people and their code. I understand fully that nobody's intent is to tell people that they suck, but there's a non-zero chance, and probably closer to 50%, that people will see it that way. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
