Re^6: User Profile Element: CPAN author ID

[erzuuli]

hv, I have not added it to your profile. That means it wasn't in the data provided by the relevant APIs on CPAN.org and MetaCPAN.org.

I don't quite understand your argument about privacy. As it stands, only those users who have explicitly made a link from their CPAN account to their PerlMonks account have the opposite link shown. Those users have already published the association. I'm not making public any connection which was heretofore private.

[hv]

Well you say I'm inclined to add everything I can find, so that could in principle go far beyond users who have explicitly made a link in the other direction.

Privacy is a fraught business. Making this an option available to people sounds like a good thing, but my cautionary instincts suggest making it opt-in would be a wise approach.

[erzuuli]

You're right; I should have been more clear and explicit. Please see the root node, which details the sources of the data I used.