2010 Grant Proposal: CPAN Reviews

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This would be great. The current CPAN Reviews site is a hassle for new users (bitcard--) and all of these features sound great. I think importing the reviews from the existing CPAN reviews would be cool too, but that could be done after this is finished.


Where is the site going to live once it is up and running?

Does this grant application cover the costs of hosting the site?


Shouldn't this augment cpanratings instead? Would it be impossible to start from what exists?


> Shouldn't this augment cpanratings instead? Would it be impossible to start from what exists?

CPAN Ratings has different goal. CPAN Ratings reviews are small and choice oriented. CPAN Reviews reviews should not be limited to choice, but also have comparison of modules, complementing documentation, etc. And it would be more complex system.

CPAN Ratings is written in Combust which requires mod_perl 1.3/Apache 1.3. Apache 1.3 was recently EOL'ed.


> Where is the site going to live once it is up and running? Does this grant application cover the costs of hosting the site?

I have possibility to host this site for free.


Hi Alexandr,

CPAN Ratings is running on Apache 2.

$ curl -sI http://cpanratings.perl.org/ | grep ^Server
Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.8.8

Will you host the site for free forever? If not, for how long?

Also: For the "extra features" that CPAN Ratings doesn't do now -- what will make people post their module comparisons to the new site rather than their weblogs. blogs.perl.org etc? For tips on documentation - isn't that AnnoCPAN?


- ask


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