Bug #89085 for WWW-BetterServers-API: Changes file conforming to CPAN::Changes::Spec

Mon Sep 30 18:50:47 2013 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Changes file conforming to CPAN::Changes::Spec

Hi Scott, Attached is a version of your Changes file, formatted according to CPAN::Changes::Spec. It looks like 0.03 was your first release of this module to CPAN (I couldn't find an earlier release on backpan), so I marked that in the file. Following this format means that various tools can more easily process your distribution automatically. You can find out more about this at Brian Cassidy's CPAN::Changes Kwalitee Service (http://changes.cpanhq.org), which is where I saw your module listed :-) Cheers, Neil

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Tue Oct 01 17:41:02 2013 scott [...] mailblock.net - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'

Tue Oct 01 17:41:02 2013 scott [...] mailblock.net - Fixed in 0.04 added

Tue Oct 01 17:42:23 2013 scott [...] mailblock.net - Correspondence added

Thank you Neil! I didn't know there was a formal spec for the Changes file. I'll have to update my other modules at some point to conform. :) On Mon Sep 30 18:50:47 2013, NEILB wrote: Show quoted text

> Hi Scott, > > Attached is a version of your Changes file, formatted according to > CPAN::Changes::Spec. > > It looks like 0.03 was your first release of this module to CPAN (I > couldn't find an earlier release on backpan), so I marked that in the > file. > > Following this format means that various tools can more easily process > your distribution automatically. > > You can find out more about this at Brian Cassidy's CPAN::Changes > Kwalitee Service (http://changes.cpanhq.org), which is where I saw > your module listed :-) > > Cheers, > Neil

Wed Oct 02 09:15:12 2013 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

It's not really a *formal* spec, but more a widely followed convention (currently 41% of CPAN distributions follow it, and a lot of the ones that don't are old dists that haven't been updated in a long time). I didn't come up with it, but I've been trying to encourage further adoption, as life will be easier for tool writers and search engines, if we all follow the same convention. Recent discussion: http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2013/09/a-convention-for-changes-files.html Cheers, Neil