On 8/21/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Cyberiade . it Anonymous Remailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > there's a lot of questionable modules being uploaded to CPAN > > which create top-level namespaces, very often not even being > > self-explanatory. it would be nice to add points for > > modules which have registered namespaces. this should encourage > > more appropriate module naming. > > Please don't do that. It has nothing to do with quality in any sense, > and it would create a lot more work for us PAUSE admins. There are > three of us who handle the registrations now although it's mostly me. I > don't want to have to see tens of messages every day which I have to > respond to and suggest more meaningful names. > > The effect of this kwalitee metric would be that fewer modules are > registered as I or Adam just stop paying attention because it's too > much work now.
Maybe you need more assistants to help out? Personally i always found the module registration process to be more opaque than it should be, and IMO "opening it up" a bit might be a good call. yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
