Re: Future of the Module List

2004-07-20 Thread Fergal Daly 
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
 I nominate the
 
  Review::*
 
 Namespace for author-submitted module indexes and in-depth reviews, in 
 POD format.  I think this has a number of advantages.  Let's use the 
 infrastructure we already have, no?

Interesting, but what comes after Review:: if it's Review::Text::Balanced
then how do we get multiple reviews Text::Balanced or are you talking about
something else entirely?

F

Re: Future of the Module List

2004-07-20 Thread Mark Stosberg 
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:10:02AM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
  I nominate the
  
   Review::*
  
  Namespace for author-submitted module indexes and in-depth reviews, in 
  POD format.  I think this has a number of advantages.  Let's use the 
  infrastructure we already have, no?
 
 Interesting, but what comes after Review:: if it's Review::Text::Balanced
 then how do we get multiple reviews Text::Balanced

Maybe the convention could be:

Review::Text::Balanced::CPANUSERNAME

I'll let someone else suggest what should happen if the same person
decides to review the same module multiple times. (Perhaps there would be
an early negative review, and then a later positive review after the
module improved with feedback.)

Mark

Re: Future of the Module List

2004-07-20 Thread Mark Stosberg 
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:57:10PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:

 The more I think about it, the more I think that it's not a great idea using
 the real CPAN to do things other than distribute code. Reuse the
 infrastructure by all means but the idea of mixing bundles, code, reviews
 and whatever else comes up in the same hierarchy with just naming
 conventions to tell them apart does not appeal to me. If we weren't
 dependent on collapsing all the relevant information down into a ::
 delimited list it would be much nicer (fantasy land, I know),

I realize it's not a clean solution, but there are some things I like
about it:

- I can check http://search.cpan.org/recent for new modules and new
  module reviews. The means one less place to check for new and
  interesting Perl things that have been published. (OTOH, perhaps
  using an RSS News reader / aggregator would solve this just as well. )

- I like the idea of searching for a term and finding modules and
  reviews coming back. OTOH, we already have CPAN ratings for this. 

[ Thinks more. ]. 

OK, I'm changing my mind. I think it makes more sense to have a way
to integrate longer reviews with cpanratings.perl.org.

Perhaps a simple solution would be provide a field to link to longer
review, which could be anywhere in any format. 

Mark

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