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Re: What's up with AnnoCPAN?
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 11, 2015 at 20:03 UTC
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G'day Cody Fendant,
[Disclaimer: I'm not connected in any way with either the annocpan.org or cpan.org
domains or any of their tools or systems.]
Representatives of those domains may provide a direct answer here.
If not, here's some alternative avenues for you to investigate.
If you feel that "AnnoCPAN" (http://www.annocpan.org/)
is providing an unacceptable level of availability,
I'd recommend using the contact information provided on "AnnoCPAN - About"
(next to where it says: "Comments and suggestions welcome.").
For issues with external links provided by "The CPAN Search Site - search.cpan.org",
I'd recommend using the contact information provided on
"Site Feedback - search.cpan.org"
(next to where it says: "If you have any feedback about this site, its design or how it presents the information, ...").
And then there's these FAQs:
Please report back with whatever information you garner.
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I have taken your advice and this is what happened.
- I went to the FAQ page, under "who to contact".
- It says to use the request tracker
- I go to the request tracker
- Exactly the problem I experienced has been reported already
- It was reported nine months ago and has never been responded to in any way
So, not a lot of confidence in the system. I guess I will email itub@cpan.org which I'm told I should only do for "general comments, suggestions, money".
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Re: What's up with AnnoCPAN?
by itub (Priest) on Jul 12, 2015 at 12:49 UTC
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Hi everyone! I'm the author of AnnoCPAN. I wish I could say the "maintainer", but as I'm sorry to admit, I've hardly done any maintenance on it for for quite a few years. I've mostly moved on to other things, as often happens in life. If someone is interested in taking over maintenance, perhaps we can arrange something.
I just tried adding a note, and it worked for me, so at least I'm happy to see that it isn't completely broken. But given that the code is ten years old, I wouldn't be surprised if some parts of it have failed to keep up with the times (or maybe there are some bugs that have been there all along, of course).
I do worry about keeping such an unmaintained website up. I hear very rarely about it, in either a positive or negative way, so I wonder if people are actually using it much. This sometimes leads me to think it might be better to pull the plug on it to have one thing less to worry about in my life. | [reply] |
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Hi itub. I don't write because I know anything about AnnoCPAN, but because I want to say that you are most certainly entitled to have one thing less to worry about in my life. I once had a paying service that was bringing in quite a bit of money that I shut down for the same reason. I think products/services that are web-based bring an extra level of responsibility/stress.
I suggest talking to the maintainers of the other planets in the CPAN solar system and see if any wants to absorb your project. Post a message loud and clear on the site stating that. Give yourself a deadline to know whether or not there will be an adopter, then either do the adoption or do the shut-down. In that case, make sure to leave the code around on GitHub, so some young turk can make use of your stuff when he or she is inspired in the future :-)
Thanks!
Remember: Ne dederis in spiritu molere illegitimi!
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The problem seems to have been temporary, because I have now successfully commented on Text::Markdown from a couple of different browsers at http://www.annocpan.org/~BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.000031/lib/Text/Markdown.pm so you might like to tidy those up?
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I would keep it up, even if it's to let people know it exists. I'm always surprised that tools like this never take off. I remember "Third Voice" which let people share notes about a web page back in the early naughts. I thought it was amazing. I just found out about AnnoCPAN myself and was impressed. I'm glad to know it exists and someone went down this path. Sometimes contributions show others the way even if they don't become popular.
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Re: What's up with AnnoCPAN?
by stevieb (Canon) on Jul 11, 2015 at 03:58 UTC
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Can you provide a couple of example links, and where in a module's page they are linked from?
I can't find such a link on any of my module pages after a (very) brief glance.
-stevieb
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I was looking at Text::Markdown.
Over on the right there's an AnnoCPAN link, under Dependencies.
If you want to try annotating, the posted OO example is wrong, as it refers to Text::MultiMarkdown.
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Re: What's up with AnnoCPAN?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2015 at 08:29 UTC
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If AnnoCPAN is going to be linked from every module's page on the official CPAN website, shouldn't someone be fixing it? Temporary outages are temporary
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