I may get downvoted for this, but so be it...

Don't waste your time with module registration, it is pretty much made irrelevant now by search.cpan.org (yes, the search sucks, but that is another issue entirely). It seems to me that the only reason for registering your module back in the day was so that it got into the "short list" and hopefully then would be more easily found. Nowadays it seems that modules@perl.org is not very well monitored (no offense @guys_who_monitor_the_list, not saying your slacking, just that you have better stuff to do), and is really only useful if you want help finding a better name for your module.

IMO one of the key reason for CPANs success is the fact there is no barrier for upload beyond needing to get a PAUSE account, and basically the anarchy works. Of course this means we also have lots of crap on CPAN, but so what, sometimes there is a gem buried in some of those lumps of crap. The assumption that if you put a kind of virtual bouncer at the door and have them pick and choose what is good and what is bad is just silly, that would only serve to make CPAN look like that persons idea of good code and discourage people who don't want to waste time arguing. If you want opinionated software, the Ruby On Rails guys down the hall will gladly serve you a big glass of kool-aid.

So, assuming you put in a "fair amount of due diligence", then you should just upload your module to CPAN and bypass registration all together. Personally I have over 50 modules and none of them are registered, cause I would rather hack on code then send emails :)

Anyway, enough perlmonks, time to go write code :)

-stvn

In reply to Don't waste your time (Was: Registering CPAN module namespace) by stvn
in thread Registering CPAN module namespace by redhotpenguin

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