Task::Kensho linked on the frontpage?

[wchristian]

The frontpage of metacpan is stylish and minimalistic, but i think it and Perl, would benefit from offering a starting point for newbies. https://metacpan.org/module/Task::Kensho is a distribution that aims at offering a selection of known well-written and useful modules. Would you consider accepting a patch that adds a prominent link to it to the frontpage?

[oalders]

I have some thoughts for how we can better use the front page, but since there isn't anything going on there right now, I think we could make use of the real estate with some helpful links etc. So, yes, this sounds like a good idea to me.

[ranguard]

+1

[forwardever]

would prefer a "most popular" link to most popular modules on metacpan (based on ++), which would display even more "useful" modules :)

(maybe also most popular by category)

e.g. it seems that Task::Kensho does not list Mojolicious nor Dancer, which does not make a lot of sense

[oalders]

Well, we can include more than one link, can't we? ;)

[castaway]

Mark Keating and I are starting on collecting various sorts of stats to build into an overall rating of distributions, with pretty graphics. A link to that may be handy when its done.

[ranguard]

@castaway what happened :) ?

[ranguard]

Moved to wish list: https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki/Wishlist - Kensho doesn't seem to have been updated in a while - I'll chase

[karenetheridge]

I'll put my head on the choppingblock as responsible for making sure TK gets out. (and for updating its content for Dancer, Mojo etc)

[ranguard]

@karenetheridge++ 👍

[ranguard]

It would also be nice to have a link to Kensho when there are no results

[oiami]

So, what needed to be done here is link to important modules and link to Kensho on no result page ?

[ranguard]

A link to Task::Kensho should be enough on the no result page

Maybe:

Sorry, we didn't find a match, maybe look at Task::Kensho, which is a list of recommended modules for Enlightened Perl development.

Making 'Task::Kensho' a link