chromatic wrote:
Some kwalitee metrics are useful in both places and that's fine. I just
wonder if some of PANTS should be more private.
I think much of the problem could be solved by separating the metrics from
the scoring. If CPANTS just gave the results of various tests so I could
look up my modules and see which ones I pass and fail, that still helps me
as a developer if I'm interested in improving my modules. Where it becomes
into a competition rather than a developer's tool is that the scores are
added together into one "Kwalitee" score that assumes (or for which people
assume):
a) all tests are relevant
b) all tests matter equally (are equally weighted)
c) higher score means higher quality
The scores are available in the database. There's no reason that someone
can't use it to generate their own "Qualitee" score or a "core Kwalitee" or
whatever subset they think matters. Some of that might be useful for
installers, and some not. But if CPANTS itself didn't offer a Kwalitee
score -- just the results of the tests -- there wouldn't be an implicit
sanction of a single metric that gets people so riled up.
Regards,
David Golden
