Bug #98986 for Module-CPANTS-Analyse: new kwalitee metric: contains IRC metadata

Fri Sep 19 15:41:13 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

new kwalitee metric: contains IRC metadata

IRC information is now displayed by metacpan: https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/1235 so it would be great to encourage authors to set this data, by having an 'extra' metric that checked for it.

Fri Sep 19 16:04:20 2014 olaf [...] wundersolutions.com - Correspondence added

On Fri Sep 19 15:41:13 2014, ETHER wrote: Show quoted text

> IRC information is now displayed by metacpan: https://github.com/CPAN- > API/metacpan-web/issues/1235 > > so it would be great to encourage authors to set this data, by having > an 'extra' metric that checked for it.

+1

Fri Sep 19 16:04:20 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Sep 19 18:46:29 2014 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Sat Sep 20 04:41:13 2014, ETHER wrote: Show quoted text

> IRC information is now displayed by metacpan: https://github.com/CPAN- > API/metacpan-web/issues/1235 > > so it would be great to encourage authors to set this data, by having > an 'extra' metric that checked for it.

Encouraging people to add some metadata is nice, but I don't think this is worth adding a metric because it's too trivial and only valid for small percent of distributions or people. Not every distribution requires to have an IRC channel to discuss, and not everyone uses IRC. Such metric detracts from overall CPANTS usefulness because people get used to ignore metrics. I keep this open but I don't think I'll add this until I add some new category for something so trivial or too new for almost all distribution to pass (but solid enough not to be called 'experimental').