Bug#616029: what is kwalitee?

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:43:34 -0600, Adam Heath wrote:

> There is an unknown word, 'kwalitee' in the package description.
> Please put the correct word in its place.

[Disclaimer: I read the IRC discussion and the mails in this bug
report with a few hours' delay. I'm a bit surprised about the tone of
the discussion, and I'd rather see it a bit toned down again.]

My quick thoughts:
- 'kwalitee' is not an unknown word in the context of CPAN but an,
  IMO, rather well-known technical term.
- Therefore I see no urgent reason for explaining it in
  libtest-strict-perl's description, also because this module is
  probably not targetted at random end users anyway.
- OTOH I know the feeling of being confused when reading
  unknown-to-me terms in descriptions, and I don't see any harm in
  adding a short explanation in parentheses (something like '(CPAN
  quality metrics)' or similar).  


Cheers,
gregor

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