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Re: A Fit on NIHby Dominus (Parson) |
on Jan 10, 2001 at 21:42 UTC ( [id://50945]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Says clemburg:
I thought that was the purpose of the "discuss your module before submitting it" part of the CPAN module procedure.Perhaps it is. In that case, I submit that that part of the procedure is failing to serve its purpose, and we need to find a more effective solution.
And should CPAN shoulder the burden of organizing the whole process around it, and take the responsibility for (always possible) errors?Here is one way it might work:
As the reporting system becomes more robust, other developments would be possible. For example, CPAN.pm might be configurable with a list of trusted people, and would display a warning before installing any module that wasn't recommended by a trusted person. There are a lot of other ways that it could work; this is only one of many possibilities.
But where is the incentive for people to put their energy into code reviews, when the majority of the community does not value this service?I think that if the issue were more visible, people would be more interested in addressing it. Once the review system was in place, it would snowball. People would start saying things like "I chose Text::Template because it had been reviewed and HTML::Template had not." Module authors would seek out reviewers and would start to exchange review services with one another.
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