Two days ago or so I posted a blog entry about the new CPANTS metrics. http://szabgab.com/blog/2008/06/1212827982.html
I am glad that already there are some comments about them even if both chromatic and Andy Lester are well, slightly against them and even Ovid did not like the Test::NoWarnings metric. http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/36627 I know they all are authorities in matters of quality but I hope at some point I might be able to either convince them or learn from them how to improve these metrics. Anyway, shall we leave all the fun to the use.perl.org readers only? I am sending this to both the module-authors list so you can be aware of the new metrics and the perl-qa list as they might have a few words as well regarding kwalitee. BTW if you go to CPANTS http://cpants.perl.org/ you will see that all the new metrics are marked as experimental and as such by default they are not supposed to be displayed. Also if you as a module author are interested in what's the status of your module in downstream distros (well, currently only debian) then you can go to CPANTS and check it out. There are two issues regarding the criticism: 1) I did not find any mention of any new metric that would be good. I'd be really glad to hear ideas of what could be a good metric? 2) True, it would be great if more of the module authors knew about CPANTS and cared. I agree so how could we let them know about it besides posting on use.perl.org and on this mailing list? Maybe http://perlbuzz.com/ ? Any other ideas? regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html
