Re^2: A room for CPAN Modules discussion?

I'm also not really convinced of the usefulness of CPAN::Forum, but it has email notifications, so you can register for emails whenever a post is made to a specific thread - which I consider OK for a module. I guess the process is that you open a thread for your module and then register for email notification, so to you as the module owner, it's more or less like a mailing list with a comfortable web archive - which I consider good.

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Re^3: A room for CPAN Modules discussion? by fergal (Chaplain) on Feb 09, 2005 at 17:31 UTC
You can sign up to be notified about all postings on a given module, no need to start a thread. I don't know if it's possible to reply to an email and have it appear on the board but it's open source so if you can think it you can make it. Peronsally I'm happy to see it because I haven't bothered setting up a mailing list but I can see how those who have mightn't like it. Maybe the author of a module should have some control over what cpanforum does for his modules.	[reply]
Re^3: A room for CPAN Modules discussion? by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2005 at 11:09 UTC
It's a mailinglist if you can actually send mail to it. As an author of CPAN modules, I'm not interested in mail I can't respond to. I have a name for such mail: it's called SPAM. I publish an email address on all my modules where people can report bugs or problems. I have a CPAN id with corresponding email address people can send their mail to. People can report bugs via the RT system. That's enough I'd say. I really don't want to hunt perlmonks, comp.lang.perl.m{isc,modules,moderated} and god knows how many other fora people think is nice to have to discuss CPAN modules.	[reply]


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