Re: Opting out of rt.cpan.org
[email protected] ("Randy W. Sims")
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Steffen Mueller wrote: >> 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> >> > > This might be a little off-topic, but the links to several modules > include author names (which are sometimes wrong: at least for > Module::Install http://search.cpan.org/author/KWILLIAMS/Module-Install/ > ). That's probably a bad idea since module releases might be taken over > at any time. For example, going to > http://search.cpan.org/author/AUTRIJUS/PAR won't get you to the current > release of PAR whereas http://search.cpan.org/dist/PAR will at all times. Oops, I don't know how that link got mixed up. Thanks for catching it. Apologies to Audrey and Adam. Ken, is it ok if we use the more generic 'dist' links? Randy.