Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ?
[email protected] (Olaf Alders)
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> On Sep 10, 2016, at 7:11 PM, L. A. Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Olaf Alders wrote: >> >> This has been in MetaCPAN since early times, so I'm guessing maybe 5 years that it has been around? It's a bit late to just back out of the change. I'd rather get consensus on how to improve it rather than to gut it entirely, unless there's consensus on just removing it. >> > ---- > Well considering it's, _essentially_, "corrupt" data, any use of it is likely to lead to incorrect results. > That doesn't seem like something that should be kept active. If nothing > else, it will draw attention from those using to the problems and motivate > coming up with a fixed/better solution. > > Besides, It's not like it is a feature in perl; the main request, at this > point, was to hide cpan.search.org's use of it until the problems are > sorted out. If you're looking to patch search.cpan.org, that's an entirely different matter. I don't know what the process is for patching that site. Olaf