Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

I thought the "min perl version" is a tough metric without considering what version of Perl it will actually run on. I would refine that metric to "declared min perl version >= actual perl version required". Figuring out the latter could perhaps be done via CPAN Testers -- if all of 5.6 fails,

CPAN River - water quality metric

At the London Perl Workshop I gave a talk on the CPAN River, and how development and release practices should mature as a dist moves up river. This was prompted by the discussions we had at Berlin earlier this year. Writing the talk prompted a bunch of ideas, one of which is having a “water

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > > Any thoughts on what factors should be included in such a metric? I think it > should really include factors that it would be hard for anyone to argue with. > Currently the individual factors are: > > Not having

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

CPANdeps (http://deps.cpantesters.org) has been providing useful information on water quality. It might be enough to make a better or opinionated presentation of it for the upriver authors. IMHO META files and min version specification depends more on when a distribution is released and don't well