On Wednesday 07 Apr 2010 22:40:45 David Cantrell wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:39:08AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I think that there should be a way to indicate that a module is up-for- > > adoption using, say, META.yml. One option would be to use one of the > > keywords in the keywords key: > > > > http://perl.net.au/wiki/Finding_a_Module_on_CPAN/Definitive_Tags > > > > We can say that if one of the keywords/tags is "adoptme" ... > > This works up to the point that someone writes a module that does Stuff > with adoptme.com. Yes, it exists. It appears to be some stupid online > game.
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection;" * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler_%28computer_scientist%29 We can say that such tags need to be "def/adoptme" or if we really want to avoid collision - "def\0adoptme" (yikes!) or whatever. But the concept should be sane. So far keywords in META.yml for CPAN distributions did not prove to be an overly popular idea and the field is wide open. Thanks for mentioning it though. When I get to write the first draft of the spec of the definitive tags I'll put a recommendation for a dedicated namespace. The way I see it, we shouldn't depend on the META.yml keywords to be compulsory, but authors who bothered to add them should be advantaged because it means they care enough to add them. This is like the keywords <meta /> tag in the html <head>...</head> section was once very important to search engines and now that search engines such as Google have much better search heuristics, is still taken into account because it indicates the authors of the page bothered adding it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
