Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
I'd like to have a discussion about rethinking the "How do I do what I want to do?" problem that people have been discussing, and that I talked about here: http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/rethinking-the-interface-to-cpan.html I've started a separate group, away from here, to discuss. http://grou

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 05 April 2008, Andy Lester wrote: > On Apr 5, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Thanks for the comments. See below for my response. It will be a > > rather > > stream-of-consciousness thing, but I hope something can come up of it. > > I've expanded my original comments here: > ht

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 13:42 -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > On Apr 5, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Thanks for the comments. See below for my response. It will be a > > rather > > stream-of-consciousness thing, but I hope something can come up of > it. > > > I've expanded my original com

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 21:34 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Anyway, I'll probably set up a wiki page about it, so we can > brain-storm more easily. I will contribute when it's available then. -- --gh

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 15:16 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Why do you feel my previous email was not concise or definite? I admit coulda woulda shoulda ... > it was > a sort-of brainstorming email, but it was not too long. If you want a this reply is even longer ;-) > one > paragraph summary t

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 16:54 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 15:16 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > one > > > paragraph summary then: > > > > > > > > > I suggest having a feed of human readable (and possibly machine > >

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 12:21 -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > > So what do you think - is there an interest in this? > > I think you should just do it. Then we can see if there is interest or > not. I will be doing the part I volunteered for ... sooner or later even if it's just for my own use.

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 14:02 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > In regards to the previous discussion about trimming down CPAN and finding I don't think trimming is necessary if you are successful with this. IMO the problem is just finding things, which your proposal addresses. > better way

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Apr 5, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Thanks for the comments. See below for my response. It will be a rather stream-of-consciousness thing, but I hope something can come up of it. I've expanded my original comments here: http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/rethinking-the-interface-to-cpan

Re: Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Andy! (and all) Thanks for the comments. See below for my response. It will be a rather stream-of-consciousness thing, but I hope something can come up of it. On Saturday 05 April 2008, Andy Lester wrote: > Every so often, an idea's like Shlomi's comes up, where we talk about > adding reviews

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Sat, Apr 05 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > In regards to the previous discussion about trimming down CPAN and finding > better ways to find quality modules, I got an idea of making CPAN "category" > reviews. The idea was originally derived from Freshmeat.net where they often > have

Changing the focus of the chronic CPAN problem

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
Every so often, an idea's like Shlomi's comes up, where we talk about adding reviews to CPAN, or reorganizing the categories, or any number of relatively easy-to-implement tasks. It's a good idea, but it's focused too tightly. What we're really trying to do is not provide reviews, but hel

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Andy Lester
On Apr 5, 2008, at 6:02 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all! In regards to the previous discussion about trimming down CPAN and finding better ways to find quality modules, I got an idea of making CPAN "category" reviews. The idea was originally derived from Freshmeat.net where they often have

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 05 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 15:16 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > one > > paragraph summary then: > > > > > > I suggest having a feed of human readable (and possibly machine > > readable) > > reviews of the modules in various CPAN categories, as

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! Thanks for your email. On Saturday 05 April 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-04 at 14:02 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > In regards to the previous discussion about trimming down CPAN and > > finding > > I don't think trimming is necessary if you are successful with th

Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! In regards to the previous discussion about trimming down CPAN and finding better ways to find quality modules, I got an idea of making CPAN "category" reviews. The idea was originally derived from Freshmeat.net where they often have category reviews of the various software hosted there