Re: Module metadata

On 9/26/07, Jonathan Rockway <jon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Golden wrote:
> > Please no!  Let's not spread module metadata around any more than we have 
> > to.
> >
> > Extend META.yml to include the same kind of information that used to
> > be managed via the modules list.  If someone wants to write a website
> > to index and syndicate *that*, fine, but don't make authors go to
> > multiple places to create and manage their metadata.
> >
>
> Yuck.  I don't want to release a new dist just to add a tag to my module.

It's a one-time cost.

Some benefits I see:

* definitive to a release and static once a distribution is released

* automatically syndicated via CPAN mirrors

* can be examined from tarballs in offline minicpan repositories

If you really want it on a web-site, just go expand the "module
metadata" section on PAUSE.  (I.e. set module-data for all
"first-come" modules just like "modulelist" modules.)

(Which reminds me to go update my module metadata on CPAN::Reporter
since I've changed license and abstract since I first registered.  The
changes are in my META.yml, of course, but I forgot about PAUSE.)

David