[sf-perl] the next generation cpan (research and discussion)

[Joe Brenner]

Joe Brenner <doom at kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On the subject of "improvements to cpan", [...]

A lot of people like the idea of publishing cpan download
stats to use popularity as a guide to quality.

It does not seem likely that that data to be made available
any time soon:

  http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#Plans_for_statistics

  "Does CPAN provide download statistics for authors?

  "No we don't. http://xxx.lanl.gov/help/faq/statfaq sums up our
  thoughts on the matter quite well."