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Welcome to the CPANHQ wiki!

CPANHQ aims to be a community-driven, meta-data-enhanced alternative to such sites as http://search.cpan.org/ and http://kobesearch.cpan.org/ . Currently, the functionality is very basic, but we have great ambitions.

Some of the current and future features are:

1. Pages for authors, distributions, releases.
2. User accounts for logging in.
3. A feed of recent releases.
4. Extracting the following meta-data from the module:
   1. Licence.
   2. Version control repository.
   3. Mailing list.
   4. Homepage.
   5. Keywords/labels/tags.
      • User-contributed labels/tags.
5. Blogs, Comments (?)
6. Screenshots / Screencasts / etc.(?)
7. JavaScript/AJAX goodness – sortable tables, AJAX, tabs, Dynamic HTML, etc.
8. search.cpan.org-like Search.
9. Support for http://perl.net.au/wiki/Finding_a_Module_on_CPAN/Module-Rank
10. ּRatings.
11. Wiki pages.
12. Perlmonks.org chatterboxes for every distribution. (?)

Ideas

1. if you plan to use “meta data”, then maybe look at RDF:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework or Topic Maps

Resources.

• irc://irc.perl.org/cpanhq – our IRC channel.
• http://github.com/bricas/cpanhq/tree/master – the main repository.
• http://github.com/shlomif/cpanhq/tree/master – shlomif’s copy which tends to be more up-to-date.
• http://github.com/bricas/cpanhq/issues – bugs / requests / issues tracker