Re: The Problem with Non-Functional Metrics

2008-06-30 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-30 22:05]: > Where CPANTS works now is identifying actual, functional > problems with distributions: missing licensing information, > not extractable, POD errors, invalid META.yml, et cetera. > > Where CPANTS doesn't work is attempting to bolt on several >

Re: The Problem with Non-Functional Metrics

2008-06-30 Thread chromatic
On Monday 30 June 2008 12:50:09 Eric Wilhelm wrote: > The kwalitee metrics should be useful data points when selecting between > multiple modules, which means that the searcher (me) makes the > decisions about which ones are important. I don't think that's possible. Where CPANTS works now is ide

Re: The Problem with Non-Functional Metrics

2008-06-30 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from chromatic # on Monday 30 June 2008 11:19: >On Monday 30 June 2008 04:01:01 Salve J Nilsen wrote: >> If people are actually annoyed about getting in the "hall of shame", >> we shouldn't remove the hall, but instead give them useful info on >> how to get out of it. If authors add useless "wor

The Problem with Non-Functional Metrics (was Re: CPAN Ratings and the problem of choice)

2008-06-30 Thread chromatic
On Monday 30 June 2008 04:01:01 Salve J Nilsen wrote: > If people are actually annoyed about getting in the "hall of shame", we > shouldn't remove the hall, but instead give them useful info on how to get > out of it. If authors add useless "workarounds" just to get on the top of > the CPANTS game