CPAN Tagging.

Here at perlmonks, we suggest the right module for given work. We can put our suggestions in the system where it will be easy for us to find.

I am not sure if this has been discussed or implemented, but IMHO, tagging CPAN modules by perlmonks can become be a nice application in similar resepct to http://del.icio.us/.

If tagged by individual user under his/her username, we can also maitain persepctive. So, for example, you can tag AnyDBM_File module as 'datafile' or 'database'.

Additionally, we can provide links to the module or its ratings and supesearch and google. People can write personal comments about the modules as well. We usually do this on individual/mental level. If we make it as combined effort, all of this can become beneficial in the long run.

We can also develop a similar system with perlmonks nodes.

Comment on CPAN Tagging.

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Re: CPAN Tagging. by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Jul 16, 2004 at 19:03 UTC
How would this improve on Ratings and Reviews for CPAN? `-- F o x t r o t U n i f o r m Found a typo in this node? /msg me % man 3 strfry`	[reply]
Re: CPAN Tagging. by kvale (Monsignor) on Jul 16, 2004 at 18:45 UTC
I think the Tutorials already serve well as a nascent rating/tagging service for perl modules. If a person is so keen on a module that they are motivated to write a tutorial for it, that is a strong endorsement for the module as well as a nice tutorial. Since PMdev also keeps the tuts nicely organized, I also think that section serves as sort of a reverse tagging service: you tell me the topic you are interested in and I will tell you some fine modules to look into. Perhaps a direct rating service (along with possibility of comments) would be a nice addition to Perlmonks. It could be arranged as daily or weekly poll: File::Find -- sucks or rocks? -Mark	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN Tagging. by etcshadow (Priest) on Jul 16, 2004 at 22:47 UTC
Sucks and rocks. `------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CPAN Tagging. by rrwo (Friar) on Jul 20, 2004 at 01:32 UTC
There has been a discussion about implementing keywords for the META.yml file on the module-authors mailing list. You may want to look at that thread.	[reply]