in reply to Re: The quantity vs. quality lesson
in thread The quantity vs. quality lesson

I take your argument, that CPAN is a project of a few, and has its policy. Probably I will start a CPAN2 at some point, probably it will be an "internal set of modules" that will not go to CPAN. Whatever will seem to be more apropriate.

I wasn't discussing the "hundreds of ideas" in the first post, because I know of the lethargy of the communities (and that's not specific to the Perl community) when it comes to these things. So why waste time?

The point is NOT "I don't like X, We should do something about it." But it is:

"I have evidence, that X is far below where it could be, but I'm alone am not able to change it. If there are people out there who think similar, lets do something about it."

Well - at least I think I'm not able to do it alone. We'll see.

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Re: Re: Re: The quantity vs. quality lesson
by Hanamaki (Chaplain) on Jun 01, 2004 at 11:20 UTC
    I don't think a CPAN2 is a good idea. It would be easier to make the current CPAN a better place. And thats quite easy by just writing another Gate to CPAN. So in your case, you could write a kind of search cpan e.g. for linguists which just returns trusted modules who passed your reviews. Thats all needed for a better CPAN, including only the part of CPAN you or your contributers are able to judge. Gateways for specialists like Linguists, Biologists or whatever seem to be a good way, to make CPAN a better place. That probably will not change the attitude of some writers, who advanced to lesson 2 of there beginners textbook of some foreign language, to immediately write crap modules, but at least we could find out, which modules we can trust or not.

    If you want to start such a project, I may volunteer to participate, if it does not become an aggressive page. This means, fair reviews even if this means "crap module" are fine to me, after the author had a change to correct his mistakes. Writing "crap module" without contacting the author in advance, is not the kind of style I could cope with.
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