* Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-06T23:29:40]
> >Finally, the scoreboard does have a purpose. Part of the original idea of
> >CPANTS was to provide an automated checklist for a good distribution.
> >
> >Has a README... check
> >Declares a $VERSION... check
> >
Hi!
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:29:40PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote:
I did most of what you asked for on thursday, but in a hurry, so it might be
buggy..
> Where's the per-module page on CPANTS that lists these simple check/fail?
http://cpants.dev.zsi.at/metrics/
http://cpants.dev.zsi.at/metrics/A
Finally, the scoreboard does have a purpose. Part of the original idea of
CPANTS was to provide an automated checklist for a good distribution.
Has a README... check
Declares a $VERSION... check
Well behaved tarball... no
And as far as I can tell, got sidetracked a
Hear hear. I'd rather see better-kwalitee kwalitee tests :)
Once the number and value of the kwalitee tests gets higher, it should
be expected that people are almost never going to score perfect.
Adam K
Johan Vromans wrote:
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Has a README... check
B
Sorry for flattening out the level of the discussion, but ...
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:43:57AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> > * "David A. Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-02T05:27:18]
> > > Andy Lester wrote:
> > > >Why is there a scor
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:43:57AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> * "David A. Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-02T05:27:18]
> > Andy Lester wrote:
> > >Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it
> > >necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being
Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has a README... check
Bonus points if it differs from the stub, and additional bonus points
if it really describes briefly what the product is.
Rationale: When browsing READMEs they are often meaningless.
> Declares a $VERSION...
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:29:17AM +, Smylers wrote:
> Indeed, and those also have odd effects: rather than being pure measures
> of users' abilities/reputations/whatever, their very existence changes
> how some users behave, where they do things specifically to increase XP
> rather than becaus
* "David A. Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-02T05:27:18]
> Andy Lester wrote:
> >Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it
> >necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being
> >served?
>
> Why is there XP on perlmonks? Or Karma on Slashdot? Or
David A. Golden writes:
> Andy Lester wrote:
>
> > Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is
> > it necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is
> > being served?
>
> Why is there XP on perlmonks? Or Karma on Slashdot?
Indeed, and those also have odd e
Andy Lester wrote:
Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it
necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being
served?
Why is there XP on perlmonks? Or Karma on Slashdot? Or for that
matter, why do we grade students' exams (particularly, why do we of
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:43:47AM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:
> I'd be far more interested with we can tell about modules on their own
> and how they can be improved, rather than make it a competition.
Maybe then it should track modules rather than authors. The top AND the
bottom along with a qui
Another way to look at it is sometimes its useful to just play with
the data,
graph it in different ways and see what comes out. Maybe nothing
comes out.
Maybe something does. Publish the results, see what happens.
I understand that, but it seems to have gone past playing data.
I'm just not com
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:30:44PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:
> Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it
> necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being
> served?
I presume you mean the CPAN scoreboard? Or maybe the Kwalitee scoreboard,
it doesn't
Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it
necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being
served?
xoxo,
Andy
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