On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Tomas Doran <bobtf...@bobtfish.net> wrote: > > On 29 May 2009, at 01:49, hkcl...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> For example, a search for "Catalyst Tutorial" on search.cpan.org shows >> a bunch of the 5.7014 stuff near the top... and that's over 7 months >> (and 9 releases) old. Is there a way to "kill off" older releases >> like that (or at least push them down in the search results)? > > The only way to do this is to delete the dist in question. > > I asked rjbs to do so, and it's now scheduled for deletion. It'll be deleted > in 48 hours, and search.cpan should catch up at whatever it's usual pace is, > later ;) > > Cheers > t0m >
Great. Thank you very much. That should at least remove some possible confusion for folks new to Catalyst who wonder why they are seeing "multiple copies of almost the same thing" in the search.cpan.org results. Does anyone know how the CPAN search algorithm works in terms of what it ranks first (or how we might be able to find out)? I look at it this way: if search.cpan.org and Google send people off in the wrong direction and/or frustrate them, then we have probably lost our only chance to "make a good first impression." It's a pain that we have to do extra work to make those external things "show Catalyst in the right way"... but at the end of the day, if it "makes us look bad" then it's just that... we look bad. I totally agree with MST's point that we should do things to promote "modern Perl", Catalyst, DBIC, Moose, etc. through things like blogging. Making it ease for people to get their hands on good information when they are new is just another way to accomplish that goal... IMHO. :-) Regards, Kennedy _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/