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Id: 82045
Status: rejected
Priority: 0/
Queue: OX
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: NEILB [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.09
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  Mon Dec 17 03:35:23 2012 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Content-free abstract
How about a more helpful abstract like: web application framework for Moose based on Bread::Board, Path::Router, and PSGI Or even just a web application framework for Moose Or: a web application framework thanks, Neil
  Thu Jul 11 10:05:14 2013 DOY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I don't think the abstract is particularly important, there's plenty of information in the docs.
  Thu Jul 11 10:05:14 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jul 11 10:05:15 2013 DOY [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'
  Thu Jul 11 13:18:30 2013 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
But when I'm looking for a module on CPAN, I don't read the docs, I do a search and first skim the abstracts to identify potentially relevant modules. Eg, go to metacpan and search on "web framework". Just trying to improve the discoverability of OX, but your call, obviously :-)
  Thu Jul 11 15:20:07 2013 stevan.little [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #82045] Content-free abstract
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:19:46 -0400
To: bug-OX [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Stevan Little <stevan.little [...] iinteractive.com>
On Jul 11, 2013, at 1:18 PM, "Neil_Bowers via RT" <bug-OX@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> Queue: OX > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82045 > > > But when I'm looking for a module on CPAN, I don't read the docs, I do a search and first skim the abstracts to identify potentially relevant modules. > > Eg, go to metacpan and search on "web framework".
Thats pretty cool! Show quoted text
> Just trying to improve the discoverability of OX, but your call, obviously :-) >
  Thu Jul 11 16:39:31 2013 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Notice too how MetaCPAN formats the abstract in bold black text, but the extract of the documentation (eg "OX is a web application framework") is smaller, non-bold, and grey. So your eye naturally slides right over it, skipping from abstract to abstract like a spinning pebble skimming across a river. Of course their eyes don't get to slide over OX, well not unless they're searching for "hardest working", or "letters in perl". Of course if they do search for those, you can rest assured that OX will be front and center. But hey, it is your dist, and if you don't want other people using it, that's fine ;-)