Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ?

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Date	2016-09-10 16:11 -0700
Subject	Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ?
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From	perl-diddler@tlinx.org ("L. A. Walsh")

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Olaf Alders wrote:
>
> This has been in MetaCPAN since early times, so I'm guessing maybe 5 years that it has been around?  It's a bit late to just back out of the change.  I'd rather get consensus on how to improve it rather than to gut it entirely, unless there's consensus on just removing it.
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    Well considering it's, _essentially_, "corrupt" data, any use of it 
is likely to lead to incorrect results. 

That doesn't seem like something that should be kept active.  If nothing
else, it will draw attention from those using to the problems and motivate
coming up with a fixed/better solution.

Besides,  It's not like it is a feature in perl; the main request, at this
point,  was to hide cpan.search.org's use of it until the problems are
sorted out. 

    It seems to me, that if any process is relying on that data, it's 
likely suffering from GIGO, which makes me wonder what benefit it could 
be providing
such that it needs to stay active (?)...

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Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? law@tlinx.org ("Linda A. Walsh") - 2016-09-07 20:56 -0700
  Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? olaf@wundersolutions.com (Olaf Alders) - 2016-09-09 08:57 -0400
    Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? perl-diddler@tlinx.org ("L. A. Walsh") - 2016-09-10 04:01 -0700
      Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? olaf@wundersolutions.com (Olaf Alders) - 2016-09-10 11:03 -0400
        Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? perl-diddler@tlinx.org ("L. A. Walsh") - 2016-09-10 16:11 -0700
          Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? olaf@wundersolutions.com (Olaf Alders) - 2016-09-10 20:10 -0400
            Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? perl-diddler@tlinx.org ("L. A. Walsh") - 2016-09-10 18:18 -0700
  Re: Where to report bugs in website 'search.cpan.org' ? david@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell) - 2016-09-12 17:04 +0100

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