Wishlist for Perl-related websites #1
One of the purpose of blogging for me is to record ideas and thoughts. So, here's another series: features I'd like to see on various Perl-related websites (like search.cpan.org, MetaCPAN, cpanratings, blogs.perl.org, etc). There will be future posts.
- cpanratings: comment on a review. Sometimes a review is so $adjective that you just want to say something about it :)
- MetaCPAN: view details of a ++ score. For starters, list of users who ++'ed the distribution. Posted to github issue comment.
- MetaCPAN: list a user's favorite distributions. For starters, list all *my* favorite distributions. Posted to github issue comment.
- MetaCPAN: show ++ score (and number of reviews) on author's page. For starters, list all *my* favorite distributions. Posted to github issue comment.
- MetaCPAN: count number of downloads. It is a good indicator of popularity. Compare: Debian's popcon, download counters on rubygems, download counters on PEAR.
A programmer (mostly Perl 5 nowadays).
My CPAN ID: SHARYANTO. I'm sedusedan on perlmonks. My twitter is stevenharyanto (but I don't tweet much). Follow me on github: sharyanto.
The cpanratings bug tracker (github issues) is here:
https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/issues?direction=desc&labels=&page=1&sort=created&state=open
The problem with displaying a download count on MetaCPAN is that CPAN is one of the most massively mirrored collections of files in the world. There's no practical way of gathering the data.
The classic response against download counts :)
I'm not talking about download counts for the whole mirrors of CPAN, just on MetaCPAN. Of course it's less useful, but less is usually more than none.