Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Douglas Bell
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > >> Number (and age if possible) of open tickets might show if someone's paying >> attention to the dist. Like David said, much like the adoption criteria. The >> issues don't have to be valid, they could even be spam for all it matters, >> a

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Neil Bowers
> You could try collecting up a bunch of these different metrics and then run a > regression analysis against the graph wise recursive downstream dep count for > everything on CPAN and see which metrics fall out in the real world. I might have a dabble at this, perhaps roping in help from someon

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Neil Bowers
> Number (and age if possible) of open tickets might show if someone's paying > attention to the dist. Like David said, much like the adoption criteria. The > issues don't have to be valid, they could even be spam for all it matters, as > long as someone's taking care of them. This is a tricky

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Neil Bowers
> 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.

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Neil, happy holidays. On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 23:05:03 + Neil Bowers wrote: > 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

Re: CPAN River - water quality metric

2015-12-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:05:03PM +, Neil Bowers wrote: >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. >