Salve J Nilsen wrote:
Adam Kennedy wrote:
The presence of lack thereof is more an indication of the scale and
importance of the module, rather than anything you can judge all 10k
modules by.
I'd rather interpret the presence/lack of community pointers as an
indication of how interested that community is in attracting new users,
helping them use the software, or even help them take part actively in
the software development. Why for $DEITY's sake wouldn't one want to
make it as easy as possible for people to join in on the fun?
Standardizing community
Hmf. Too quick on the send button, sorry.
Standardizing a way to pinpoint software community resources may have several
beneficial effects, including giving users pointers on project viability
(software with an active community behind it is more desirable than one without
it), increase the probability for people to give feedback (comments, bug
reports, feature ideas, patches) and make it more likely for a community to
reach "smallest critical mass" (make it less likely for people to _not_ join a
community because "there are too few people in the community".)
The search.cpan.org webpages have already some community support features (link
to rt.perl.org and annocpan), why not make it possible for the authors to add
and improve that information? :)
- Salve
