<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:41 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkclark@gmail.com">hkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Tomas Doran <<a href="mailto:bobtfish@bobtfish.net">bobtfish@bobtfish.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 29 May 2009, at 01:49, <a href="mailto:hkclark@gmail.com">hkclark@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> For example, a search for "Catalyst Tutorial" on <a href="http://search.cpan.org" target="_blank">search.cpan.org</a> shows<br>
>> a bunch of the 5.7014 stuff near the top... and that's over 7 months<br>
>> (and 9 releases) old. Is there a way to "kill off" older releases<br>
>> like that (or at least push them down in the search results)?<br>
><br>
> The only way to do this is to delete the dist in question.<br>
><br>
> I asked rjbs to do so, and it's now scheduled for deletion. It'll be deleted<br>
> in 48 hours, and search.cpan should catch up at whatever it's usual pace is,<br>
> later ;)<br>
><br>
> Cheers<br>
> t0m<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Great. Thank you very much. That should at least remove some<br>
possible confusion for folks new to Catalyst who wonder why they are<br>
seeing "multiple copies of almost the same thing" in the<br>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org" target="_blank">search.cpan.org</a> results.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know how the CPAN search algorithm works in terms of what<br>
it ranks first (or how we might be able to find out)?<br>
<br>
I look at it this way: if <a href="http://search.cpan.org" target="_blank">search.cpan.org</a> and Google send people off<br>
in the wrong direction and/or frustrate them, then we have probably<br>
lost our only chance to "make a good first impression." It's a pain<br>
that we have to do extra work to make those external things "show<br>
Catalyst in the right way"... but at the end of the day, if it "makes<br>
us look bad" then it's just that... we look bad. I totally agree with<br>
MST's point that we should do things to promote "modern Perl",<br>
Catalyst, DBIC, Moose, etc. through things like blogging. Making it<br>
ease for people to get their hands on good information when they are<br>
new is just another way to accomplish that goal... IMHO. :-)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Just as a quick aside, if you go to <a href="http://catalystframework.org">catalystframework.org</a> and follow the Documentation link, it continues to <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Manual/">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Manual/</a> which defaults to the latest version. <br>
<br>If the search results defaulted to the latest, there was a canonical tag that pointed to the /dist/ path, as well as the "Latest version" link always doing the right thing, the problem would likely be reduced.<br>
<br>The Latest version link could be made more prominent as well.<br><br>-J<br></div></div>