Have a page "Help improve CPAN" linked off "the front page"

[neilb]

This is an idea prompted by @rwstauner's recent help and a comment made by @szabgab.

Have a page titled something like "CPAN needs you!" (with kitchener logo, natch). This would provide links to a number of auto-generated lists:

• dists with a badly-formed abstract
• dists that don't have a Changes file
• dists that don't have a README
• etc

With tips on how you can contribute. Would be nice if you could apply a filter to this "only tell me about dists that have a github repo in their metadata". Each page could also show the MetaCPAN query used to create the list.

This could be linked off either the header or footer.

Go on Leo, slide it on over to the dumping ground wishlist :-)

[ranguard]

Great idea... ( already started in Lab: https://metacpan.org/lab/dashboard - which shows your repos with 'Missing repository' or 'Missing licenses' so that would be a good place for someone to start), moving to wish list until we have someone actually doing code on it.

@neilbowers we are happy for the great ideas, but having 101 great ideas issues masking the actual bugs made it really hard for us to focus on what actually needed fixing. We also found lots of duplication because people didn't search the previous issues or they were just out of date - that's why we have the wishlist to keep things more manageable. The Wishlist is not a dumping ground, it's a place to point people at if they want to find something to do.

You do great work and have great ideas, but unless someone is actively working on a pull request we will always move issues to the wishlist that are not actual bugs.

[neilb]

I hope I didn't offend with that comment — I think having the wishlist is spot-on.

[ranguard]

no offence taken - just clarifying :)

[neilb]

Just realised. You commented (my emphasis):

[...] shows your repos with 'Missing repository' or 'Missing licenses' so that would be a good place for someone to start

But I was meaning across everyone, to encourage people to help fix any dists on CPAN that need help, not just their own.

The dashboard is a good idea too :-)

[ranguard]

Yea, having both a personal one for all your own module issues AND a list of modules all, by issue type, would be best :)