Re: A room for CPAN Modules discussion?

I'm not entirely convinced of the CPANForum's usefulness (unless it has some way to automatically email the registered owner of a module each time a question about it comes up or something, and then, of course, a way for each author to tell it to go away and stop bothering them). But adding it here? That is just as bad - and since CPANForum already exists, it's actually worse (compounds the problem rather than fixes it).

As for using Perlmonks Discussion as a place for discussing modules - that seems wrong to me, too. This is about discussing perlmonks, not modules (that's what SoPW is for). Which, I suppose, makes this particular thread on-topic here, but what the thread is about would not be on-topic here, IMO.

Any "reformulation" for here ... could just as easily be added to CPANForum. The question is, is any author going to pay attention to here any more than CPANForum? I doubt either one has an edge.

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Re^2: A room for CPAN Modules discussion? by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 09, 2005 at 08:49 UTC
I'm also not really convinced of the usefulness of CPAN::Forum, but it has email notifications, so you can register for emails whenever a post is made to a specific thread - which I consider OK for a module. I guess the process is that you open a thread for your module and then register for email notification, so to you as the module owner, it's more or less like a mailing list with a comfortable web archive - which I consider good.	[reply]
Re^3: A room for CPAN Modules discussion? by fergal (Chaplain) on Feb 09, 2005 at 17:31 UTC
You can sign up to be notified about all postings on a given module, no need to start a thread. I don't know if it's possible to reply to an email and have it appear on the board but it's open source so if you can think it you can make it. Peronsally I'm happy to see it because I haven't bothered setting up a mailing list but I can see how those who have mightn't like it. Maybe the author of a module should have some control over what cpanforum does for his modules.	[reply]
Re^3: A room for CPAN Modules discussion? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2005 at 11:09 UTC
It's a mailinglist if you can actually send mail to it. As an author of CPAN modules, I'm not interested in mail I can't respond to. I have a name for such mail: it's called SPAM. I publish an email address on all my modules where people can report bugs or problems. I have a CPAN id with corresponding email address people can send their mail to. People can report bugs via the RT system. That's enough I'd say. I really don't want to hunt perlmonks, comp.lang.perl.m{isc,modules,moderated} and god knows how many other fora people think is nice to have to discuss CPAN modules.	[reply]
Re^2: A room for CPAN Modules discussion? by monsieur_champs (Curate) on Feb 11, 2005 at 13:50 UTC
Fellow Tanktalus wrote: As for using Perlmonks Discussion as a place for discussing modules - that seems wrong to me, too. This is about discussing perlmonks, not modules (that's what SoPW is for). Which, I suppose, makes this particular thread on-topic here, but what the thread is about would not be on-topic here, IMO. Dear fellow, I beg your pardon. I don't make myself clear as water at the first post. I'm using PerlMonks Discussion to suggest a new Category, which name could be Module Parliament, the place where issues like module architecture and adoption of orphaned modules could take place publically, inside PerlMonks (that is a well-advertised, well-known forum for Perl and Community-related discussions). Hope that now my point is clear like the water from the Monastery fountain. Peace and Glory -- monsieur_champs	[reply]