Integrate CPANRating

[ranguard]

https://cpanratings.perl.org/ - has it's problems (bugs / old reviews / no sense of recency and people leaving unhelpful comments with no clean way to get them hidden), but it also has a lot of interesting reviews.

If someone wants to port this over to work under MetaCPAN, the MetaCPAN project would be interested, but we haven't found anyone to do this yet.

Please contact us (comment on this ticket, or join #metacpan on irc.perl.org) if you are interested

[ranguard]

Maybe something like https://disqus.com/ could be discussed ?

[dolmen]

Disqus (and other similar SaaS) is the kind of platform that tracks you accross the web, so it is filtered by my blocker. Which implies I and many other users will not be able to view the content and to contribute.

[oalders]

See also discussion at https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues/1653

[nigelhorne]

I’ll clone it and take a look.

[nigelhorne]

Couldn't find the code - no link on the website and nothing in Github.

[ranguard]

I think you’ll find it here:

https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb/tree/master/lib/CPANRatings

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[ranguard]

@nigelhorne that was linked to from https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues/1653 - which is an important thread to read before starting anything :)

[ranguard]

CPAN Ratings is now in read only: https://log.perl.org/2018/06/cpan-ratings-read-only.html I've removed MetaCPAN's web links to CPAN Ratings: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/pull/2056

[Grinnz]

Perhaps it would be better for the replacement to be specifically labeled as a comments section (like the suggested disqus would be, but I agree disqus is pretty gross). That allows users to give feedback to the author and other users while not falling into the "review sabotage" issue that cpanratings had. Metacpan already has the ++ system for ratings. Comments would be dated and could have the applicable version attached to them as in cpanratings, and if threading is displayed right, a reply saying that a parent comment is out of date would be easy to self-enforce.

And for a possibly completely crazy suggestion, how about using a subreddit and linking to a post for comments on each distribution.

[oalders]

And for a possibly completely crazy suggestion, how about using a subreddit and linking to a post for comments on each distribution.

I think the issue here is that the threads will be locked after some time (6 months?).

[Grinnz]

That would certainly be an issue :(

[oalders]

Or we do this for 6 months and then see if we have a better idea. :)