> On Sep 10, 2016, at 7:11 PM, L. A. Walsh <perl-didd...@tlinx.org> wrote: > > Olaf Alders wrote: >> >> This has been in MetaCPAN since early times, so I'm guessing maybe 5 years >> that it has been around? It's a bit late to just back out of the change. >> I'd rather get consensus on how to improve it rather than to gut it >> entirely, unless there's consensus on just removing it. >> > ---- > Well considering it's, _essentially_, "corrupt" data, any use of it is > likely to lead to incorrect results. > That doesn't seem like something that should be kept active. If nothing > else, it will draw attention from those using to the problems and motivate > coming up with a fixed/better solution. > > Besides, It's not like it is a feature in perl; the main request, at this > point, was to hide cpan.search.org's use of it until the problems are > sorted out.
If you're looking to patch search.cpan.org, that's an entirely different matter. I don't know what the process is for patching that site. Olaf
