Does CPAN need a facelift?

If it wouldn't be a fact that almost every time A Grand Idea thunders into my mind and, after quickly searching CPAN for such, I'd find that this Grand Idea had already been conceived, put into coding action and completed with the result of Some::Fine::Module, and if I were only a bit ahead of my time, I would have long ago written a vim macro which does make, make test, make clean, make dist and post it to CPAN by just issuing

:publish
[download]

in vim, which does all PAUSE interaction in a neat perlish way, using LWP, WWW::Mechanize and whatnot.

And I would have extended that to also check whether that module is mine or somebody elses, and derived from that whether to just commit or issue a pull request and whatnot. Maybe I'll do that some day and publish the result here or elsewhere, but for now that isn't anywhere on my workbench queue.

Do I need JavaScript or fancy CSS to install Modules? No. Why should I need such to publish? There's perlbug to report perl bugs, mailing lists etc. Why should I use a browser?

So, no, CPAN doesn't need a facelift. It doesn't even need to have a face. It lives because of its content.