There seems to be a curious lack of history here. I'm not a Perl programmer at all, but even I know that CPAN has had reviews and ratings and this sort of stuff for forever (in Internet terms).
It seems to me that this blog post could be replaced by a single line - and would be better, actually - if that line was 'GitHub, please do that review stuff however CPAN is and has been successfully doing it for years'.
Bonus points if he knew enough to explain how CPAN avoids all the obvious failure modes raised by commenters here.
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There seems to be a curious lack of history here. I'm not a Perl programmer at all, but even I know that CPAN has had reviews and ratings and this sort of stuff for forever (in Internet terms).
It seems to me that this blog post could be replaced by a single line - and would be better, actually - if that line was 'GitHub, please do that review stuff however CPAN is and has been successfully doing it for years'.
Bonus points if he knew enough to explain how CPAN avoids all the obvious failure modes raised by commenters here.