On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:49 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 June 2008 02:28:54 Thomas Klausner wrote: > >> For example: >> http://cpants.perl.org/kwalitee.html#no_cpants_errors >> no_cpants_errors >> Shortcoming: Some errors occured during CPANTS testing. They might >> be caused by bugs in CPANTS or some strange features of this >> distribution. See 'cpants' in the dist error view for more info. >> Remedy: Please report the error(s) to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> 'Shortcoming' should be extended to say: >> "The goal of deducting a kwalitee point for 'no_cpants_errors' is to get >> authors to report CPANTS bugs. As you might guess, testing 10.000+ >> different dists is hard. There are lot of special cases. It's impossible >> to figure out all those special cases in advance. 'no_cpants_errors' is >> a way to outsource the discovery of special cases to module authors." >> >> or something like that... > > I thought the goal of Kwalitee was to identify good free software, not to > humiliate thousands of other authors of free software for not anticipating > and working around your bugs.
I also think the no_cpants_errors has no place in the core metrics nor actually any metric. It should be only seen by the CPANTS authors.... ... but chromatic, while I have not added that specific metric your tone is offending and humiliating me and maybe also Thomas and possibly others who invest time to try to make CPAN a better place. Gabor
