Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Peters
Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > Kobesearch's sources are available. search.cpan.org uses swish-e which is very configurable. We (meaning $work) do category/tagging searching with swish-e in lots of other places. -- Michael Peters Plus Three, LP

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-06 Thread Jonathan Rockway
* On Sun, Apr 06 2008, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-04 at 23:47 +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: >> > It still looks like a big job to me. >> > >> >> Kobesearch's sources are available. > > See Jonathan Rockaway's last reply in this thread. His stuff looks > really good. He pointed

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2008-06-04 at 19:25 -0400, Guy Hulbert wrote: > Jonathan Rockaway Sorry. Should have been 'Rockway'. -- --gh

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-06 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Sun, 2008-06-04 at 23:47 +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: > > It still looks like a big job to me. > > > > Kobesearch's sources are available. See Jonathan Rockaway's last reply in this thread. His stuff looks really good. He pointed me to this (offlist): http://git.jrock.us/?p=MetaCP

Re: Idea: CPAN Category Reviews

2008-04-06 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:18:21AM -0400, Guy Hulbert wrote: > > Concisely, I think the best solution is to add some restrictions at the > upload interface. To be consistent with TMTOWTDI, these would not > prevent modules from being uploaded but not following them would result > in making the mo

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: 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

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