On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:41 AM, <hkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. :-) >
Just as a quick aside, if you go to catalystframework.org and follow the Documentation link, it continues to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Manual/ which defaults to the latest version. If the search results defaulted to the latest, there was a canonical tag that pointed to the /dist/ path, as well as the "Latest version" link always doing the right thing, the problem would likely be reduced. The Latest version link could be made more prominent as well. -J
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