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I really wish there were some opt-in statistical reporting for CPAN. Personally, I'd like to see if people are using the stuff I wrote, but it'd also be neat to see which modules are really popular so I could check them out. Unfortunately, I don't think anything like that exists.

-Paul

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Re^2: Which CPAN modules are most used/depended upon?
by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 26, 2006 at 19:04 UTC
    Personally, I'd like to see if people are using the stuff I wrote,
    That's easy. Look at the size of your rt.cpan.org queue. If it's empty, either your code is perfect (unlikely), or nobody is using it or cares about it.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      That's definitely an indicator of something, but not really what I had in mind. I don't think rt.cpan.org is really that popular yet. In addition, if I am personally an example of a human, then I figure most people that experience a problem with a module simply code around it or email the author. The only person that's ever re-directed me to rt after an email is Mr. Tang, the the author of PAR.

      The author of Convert::ASN1 (for example) just fixed the problem and released a new version. I noticed that the only tickets open on that are spam with a couple real ones from 10 months ago. I have a hunch Mr. Barr doesn't even know rt is there, nor do most of the module's users.

      Don't get me wrong, I can't wait for rt to take off. It's really slick. But I don't think it's a very good indicator of whether people are using your modules yet.

      -Paul

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        The latest h2xs templates push RT as the "reporting system of choice". Of course, older-built modules don't get this retrofitted, but it's clearly becoming more promoted over time.

        -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

        update: Apparently, not h2xs. Perhaps Module::Starter? I know there's some tool I've played with that adds a standard rt.cpan.org mailing link.
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