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Searching

Searches input formats (e.g. regexes)

• Regex search
• Regex like string
• Type-based searches à la search.cpan.org
• CPAN test report format

Elastic search

• Don't use prefix queries/filters
• Index 06perms | see also 462 | see also 952
• split out the pause ID, email address and put them in separate fields - so can list author's contributions on author page

SEO

• Support http - for stumbleupon etc

Results

Not expected results

• version.pm

Improved results / links

• Flag unauthorised releases
• Orphan dists get presented with a wrong / confusing link
• Wrong previous versions and not found links

RSS / Subscription

• Add changes to RSS
• Subscribe to modules for notification

New searches

• List of new modules
• CPAN News: Following modules, authors, and author blogs

Account

• 'star' dists - to flag interest instead of approval
• More info on account links
• Login via OpenID
• Delete all information associated with an account
• Merge two accounts

User pages - a public page for every user (even non-authors)

• Links to favs
• Other meta info
• Users who have X profile, e.g. twitter

Author

• Show releases superceded by newer releases of other authors
• Author newsfeed mashup of github and twitter activity
• Show who ++'ed my modules
• Google Analytics For Module Pages
• Add bitcoin and paypal donations
• Add link to CPANTS (e.g. http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/author/ETHER) and include Kwalitee ranking - small
• Notify the author (by E-mail/etc.) when MetaCPAN was unable to index a new release of the distribution, while mentioning the error

UI

• Mobile / print friendly UI
• Rating UI
• Font too small

Profile

• No warning about leaving page profile page with unsaved edits

Recent pages

• "Recent" page with more precise timing?

Changes file

• use anchor tags in Changes file for each version
• Handle GNU style files vs Changlog

Search form

• Search suggestion chosen by mouse pointer placementand

Search results

• when a search only returns one item, just display that item
• Show reverse dependency count in list | see also 913 | see also 922 | see also 764 | see also 883
• Split reverse dependencies out by phase (configure, build, runtime, test, develop)
• Task::Kensho link
• Anchor to code examples
• order date - e.g. author page

Distribution

• Include author from META in the "Contributors" Section
• "Ignore Whitespace" switch in diff view - small
• Link to site that generates epub/pdf from pod - http://perlybook.org/
• List all authors with comaint
  • Here's a mock-up for how it could look.
• Badges
• Show if abandoned
• Track and report on views/downloads - Large - maybe via fastly and streaming logs?
• Display primary author
  • Here's a mock-up for how it could look.
• Pod -> syntax highlighting hints for code blocks
• provide and show status images
• unhelpful =head1 NAME fix?
• source with Line directives to show multiple line number columns
• prereq diff
• Show CPANTS score (percentage) next to the CPANTS link in left sidebar - small
• in the page https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.0 , the "Go to version" select box in the left sidebar lists numerified entries like "5.018001 DEV (RJBS on 2013-08-04)". change this to display the full version number string, such as "perl-5.18.1-RC2 DEV (RJBS on 2013-08-04)" please.
• indicate whether the distribution is marked as needing help (comaint held by the PAUSE id NEEDHELP, ADOPTME or HANDOFF)

Misc

• Host github-meets-cpan. Low traffic.
• Help Make CPAN better
• SEOLinks - What we'd like to get switched over to help people find MetaCPAN in the first place