> > Do you think PM should be used to publicly criticize a CPAN author with working modules?

> Where do you see any criticism of, well, anyone in the opening post of this thread?

Did you read the linked blog post?

Just to cite two parts (I underlined criticism):

• maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code .
• I patched it a number of times, but there was one problem I couldn't quite put my finger on so, I asked JHI, then the P5 Pumpking, to have a look and even he was bewildered. I wonder if his #WTF comment is still in there

Update

But what I'd like to emphasize, is:

• Graham won a White Camel award in 2002.
• We would like to thank all who have assisted with this project. An extra special thanks to Graham for his hard work and unwavering support of search.cpan.org for all these years.

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