On Saturday 28 June 2008 08:54:34 Gabor Szabo wrote: > It seems that the game theme is after all turned into "fierce competition" > or "lack of interest" depending on ... I don't know on what, but neither is > good for CPAN. > In some cases - me included - people fix the symptom to get the metric > point while the underlying code does not really change. So the indicator > stops being an indicator.
Exactly -- and in other cases, the metric point is actively harmful to the CPAN. > Maybe what we need to do is > 1) remove the game > 2) fix the current metrics (e.g. license is not correct now) > 3) Add detailed explanations for each metric, or maybe to create a page on > the TPF Perl 5 wiki for each metric where it would be easier to provide > pro and contra explanations for each metric. > 4) add more metrics (including those that collect data from external > sources) 5) categorize the metrics as suggested by Salve > 6) get the search engines to start to use some of the metrics > in their search results. > > Not necessarily in that order Full support from me on these. -- c
