[feature] Show if an author is a Debian developer

[dolmen]

It may be useful to know if a CPAN author is also a Debian developer.

The Debian Perl group has a list of members that may be useful to get that information: https://alioth.debian.org/project/memberlist.php?group_id=30274

(This is not really a feature that I want. I'm just putting this as the data source may be useful for someone else)

[dolmen]

This list should instead be used to create an Acme::CPANAuthors::DebianDev and MetaCPAN would use that.

[ranguard]

Closing until someone writes CPANAuthors::DebianDev and someone else then wants the feature, good to have the link in here for future reference

[book]

I just stumbled on this issue. This is just to note that the list above is a list of names, not CPAN ids. So the list of Debian developers has to be filtered for CPAN authors. Although one can use some automated tools, this is ultimately a manual process.

I'm doing something similar for Acme::CPANAuthors::Booking, so I'll look into picking up Acme::CPANAuthors::DebianDev. (Insert standard tuits disclaimer.)

[book]

Acme::CPANAuthors::DebianDev is now on CPAN!

[oalders]

Let's leave this open until Nov 1, 2014. If it hasn't seen any progress by then, we'll move it to the wish list.

[jonassmedegaard]

I for one would be delighted to have MetaCPAN indicate when an author is also a Debian developer.

[book]

Related: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99582.

Basically, the question is: do we want to highlight if the CPAN authors is a "Debian developer" (using the Debian meaning of the term) or simply a "member of an Alioth team which contributes lots of Perl maintenance work to Debian" (which is more vague, but might be more useful for CPAN authors).

Of course, nothing prevents us to have both. ;-)

[jonassmedegaard]

Quoting Philippe Bruhat (BooK) (2014-11-06 08:52:03)

Related: [1]https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=99582.

Basically, the question is: do we want to highlight if the CPAN authors is a "Debian developer" (using the Debian meaning of the term) or simply a "member of an Alioth team which contributes lots of Perl maintenance work to Debian" (which is more vague, but might be more useful for CPAN authors).

There is more than one "Debian meaning". The latter also makes sense from a Debian POV, and is not "more vague", just semantically different.

Some differentiate between "Debian Developer" and Debian developer" (notice difference in capitalization) - the former being those with a debian.org email address, and the latter being those who develop with or without formal recognizion.

A translation to CPAN might be differentiating "PAUSE account holders" and "authors of publicly released Perl modules": The former includes those not (yet) releasing any code at all, whereas the latter includes those releasing their code only to e.g. Bitbucket or Github.

I agree that for CPAN looking at Debian, the latter is likely most relevant. But really depends on what you want. :-)

Nowadays, we in Debian try rephrase as "Debian Members" and "Debian contributors" - both of which are facets of the larger/ambiguous "Debian [Dd]evelopers".

Of course, nothing prevents us to have both. ;-)

Indeed.

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[ranguard]

No movement - closing