I'm always glad to see some one applying a bit of JFDI rather than having interminable discussions about things. But as a module author/maintainer, this puts me in a bit of a spot - it's probably easier just quote what I said when asked about this somewhere else:

I can't see what niche this fills: if there are bugs in a module to report then the author will probably have indicated where these should go, either to http://rt.cpan.org , to a mailling list, direct to the author or whatever.

As a module author and/or maintainer I don't want to have to monitor another site to pick up support issues anyway, but having it as a web forum just makes it even more inconvenient - the majority of the free time I have when I might be able to offer support to my modules is those times when I will not be able to use a web site. I prefer e-mail.

There is no option on the site to opt your modules out of it - so if this achieves some semi-official status, then people who have problems with the modules I support are going to perceive that they are poorly supported when they don't get a response.

/J\

In reply to Re: CPAN::Forum opens its virtual doors by gellyfish
in thread CPAN::Forum opens its virtual doors by szabgab

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