On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 05:38:13PM -0400, Olaf Alders wrote:
>
> > On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
> >
> >>> PAUSE doesn’t (currently) know the river position, but if it published
> >>> a feed of deletion-schedulings, then some third-party agent could
> >>> monitor the feed and check for dists that are on river. I think those
> >>> are the dists that should be alerted to modules@ […] Obviously the
> >>> issue here is DarkPAN: a dist might not have any CPAN dependents, but
> >>> may be used plenty out in the big bad world. That’s a separate problem
> >>> :-)
> >>
> >> I don’t think so. Plack::Middleware::Rewrite is used by a ton of people
> >> and klaxons certainly ought to ring if I ever opened up that namespace.
> >> The number of on-CPAN dependents is just 3 though.
> >
> > The key word in what I said was *any*. I think even 3 dependents should
> > klaxon.
> > Plus having any favourites on CPAN should also prompt the klaxon as well: I
> > use favourites as a proxy for “has dependents” in both the adoption list
> > and weighting dists for the PRC, and it seems to work.
> >
> > I still think we need a service where you can say “I’m using this dist”. I
> > think I’ll add that feature to the dashboard, which I’ll be working on at
> > the QAH.
>
> This would be pretty easy to bolt onto MetaCPAN. I was already considering
> something like this to run parallel to ++ where ++ means "I recommend this"
> and there's some alternate symbol for saying "I use this". This would make
> it easy to have a script that would scan deps in apps and add them to your "I
> use this" list in MetaCPAN.
Years ago, Léon Brocard (I think) published a script that did basically
explore your disk looking for use lines, and reported them for publication
on some dash/leaderboard.
A button for manual addition is a good first step, but something automated
might give more thorough results.
OK, I did a bit of search on use.perl.org, and I found these:
- http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_acme/journal/10432.html
- http://use.perl.org/use.perl.org/_acme/journal/10623.html
The service is down, but the Internet Archive has some old copies:
https://web.archive.org/web/20041010044220/http://www.astray.com/cpanstats/
> Then, if you're planning on making a controversial change to module Y,
> you have a list of users whom you can warn or poll for advice.
Preventing anonymous posts would also prevent some popularity contest
and ballot stuffing.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #85 (Epic))
