Re: Opting out of rt.cpan.org

[email protected] ("Randy W. Sims")
Newsgroups perl.cpan.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> On Mar 4, 2006, at 10:08 AM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:43:51 -0800, Tyler MacDonald  
>>>>>>> <[email protected]> said:
>>
>>
>>>     How about allowing a package maintainer to set a "bug tracking URL",
>>> and when this is set, rt.cpan.org will redirect a user there? That  way
>>> people who don't want to use rt.cpan.org can just have it redirect  
>>> to what
>>> they *do* want to use (sourceforge or whatever).
>>
>>
>> On the German Perl Workshop a similar poit was raised: the URL of the
>> repository of a distro. Having both in the META.yml seems the way to
>> go.
> 
> 
> There was talks sometime ago about have several URLs in META.yml for  
> things like
> project homepage, bug tracker, repository etc. I am not sure if  
> anything ever
> came of it though

It's part of the 1.2 spec:

  <http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.2.html#resources>

Randy.
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