Linda A. Walsh
2016-09-29 21:55:59 UTC
I won't go into why /how this subject/email got routed
around various lists, but it's been to the cpan-testers-discuss
and perl-authors list, with no one from those lists knowing
how website 'search.cpan.org' might be contacted or persuaded to
stop including the ratings number until the issues with the ratings
number are addressed.
I started wondering how to get this confusing information removed
from the search site after I noticed how confusing it was when I
looked for available mail-filtering/Miltering mods and came across
Mail-Milter. I then noticed it had 1 review with a single '*' --
and it asked if the review was helpful. It wasn't, for the most
obvious reason in that it didn't say what version the review was
about.
Some of these modules are > 10 years and have dozens of
versions, and having reviews that were written against v0.0.1
when the current version is v3.0.0 is only the most visible part
of the problem. Other parts include the review being used inappropriately
to describe bugs, wanted feature, or side-swipes at a feature set that
the reviewer felt would have been best served by their module.
In short such a mess shouldn't be included by reference on the main
CPAN search page until the various problems are dealt with within the
cpanratings module+site.
So who is in charge of the search.cpan.org site and how can this
unhelpful facebook-like "approve/upvote" system get removed from
what should be a technical resource, not a popularity site?
around various lists, but it's been to the cpan-testers-discuss
and perl-authors list, with no one from those lists knowing
how website 'search.cpan.org' might be contacted or persuaded to
stop including the ratings number until the issues with the ratings
number are addressed.
I started wondering how to get this confusing information removed
from the search site after I noticed how confusing it was when I
looked for available mail-filtering/Miltering mods and came across
Mail-Milter. I then noticed it had 1 review with a single '*' --
and it asked if the review was helpful. It wasn't, for the most
obvious reason in that it didn't say what version the review was
about.
Some of these modules are > 10 years and have dozens of
versions, and having reviews that were written against v0.0.1
when the current version is v3.0.0 is only the most visible part
of the problem. Other parts include the review being used inappropriately
to describe bugs, wanted feature, or side-swipes at a feature set that
the reviewer felt would have been best served by their module.
In short such a mess shouldn't be included by reference on the main
CPAN search page until the various problems are dealt with within the
cpanratings module+site.
So who is in charge of the search.cpan.org site and how can this
unhelpful facebook-like "approve/upvote" system get removed from
what should be a technical resource, not a popularity site?