Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ?
[email protected] ("Linda A. Walsh") Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:55:59 -0700
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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?