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    Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ReadmeFromPod
        Author: FAYLAND <https://metacpan.org/author/FAYLAND>

        Has some problems, e.g. it uses InstallTool phase so it conflicts
        with DZP:StaticInstall when wanting to produce a static install
        distro. Use alternatives like the simpler DZP:Pod2Readme or the more
        complex DZP:ReadmeAnyFromPod. <br>

        Rating: 2/10

    Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Hook
        Author: VDB <https://metacpan.org/author/VDB>

        Great for debugging. Just whip up some code in dist.ini to e.g. dump
        &amp; print some stuffs, etc.

    File::Tail::Dir
        Author: JJSCHUTZ <https://metacpan.org/author/JJSCHUTZ>

        Interesting features, but mooseware.

        Rating: 6/10

    Algorithm::Dependency
        Author: ETHER <https://metacpan.org/author/ETHER>

        Happily returns result when graph is cyclic (and thus proper
        topological sorting cannot be done). See also Data::Graph::Util for
        a simpler alternative. <br>

        Rating: 6/10

    Data::Match
        Author: KSTEPHENS <https://metacpan.org/author/KSTEPHENS>

        (Reviewing Sort::Topological, which is included in Data-Match
        distribution at the time of this review). <br><br>Hangs when given a
        dependency like: a =&gt; [&quot;a&quot;]. Happily returns result
        when graph is cyclic (and thus proper topological sorting cannot be
        done). See also Data::Graph::Util for alternative. <br>

        Rating: 4/10

    File::Find::Wanted
        Author: PETDANCE <https://metacpan.org/author/PETDANCE>

        File::Find lacks the &quot;making easy things easy&quot; part, so
        modules like this are great. A further step would be an option to
        omit $wanted for even simpler cases, but that would probably break
        the interface. Another alternative is File::Finder, but it forces OO
        style. <br>

        Rating: 8/10

    Hash::MD5
        Author: MZIESCHA <https://metacpan.org/author/MZIESCHA>

        Since this is essentially md5(dump($data)), why restrict yourself to
        hash? This works also for any kind of Perl data structure.

    DateTime::Format::Docker
        Author: MZIESCHA <https://metacpan.org/author/MZIESCHA>

        Isn't this basically ISO8601 (see DateTime::Format::ISO8601)?

    WWW::CPANRatings
        Author: CORNELIUS <https://metacpan.org/author/CORNELIUS>

        To get the ratings for a single distribution, this client library
        needs to download /csv/all_ratings.csv (~80KB at the time of this
        writing) first. This is not the fault of the client because the
        website indeed does not provide the necessary ratings data on the
        /dist/:DISTNAME page. The client library should perhaps cache the
        CSV response though. The implementation could also be simplified by
        using slimmer libraries for this simple scraping task. But other
        than that, does what it says on the tin.

        Rating: 8/10

    Parse::CPAN::Ratings
        Author: LBROCARD <https://metacpan.org/author/LBROCARD>

        Not as useful as the name implies. It requires you to download the
        CSV of all ratings first, which BTW does not seem to be advertised
        on the CPAN Ratings website. The CSV file only contains numeric
        ratings and does not include any reviews. So basically what this
        module does is just filter the CSV rows for a distribution's rating.
        <br><br>One might want to look at WWW::CPANRatings instead.

        Rating: 6/10

    Acme::Curse
        Author: MORITZ <https://metacpan.org/author/MORITZ>

        This pure-perl module creates a shallow copy of the object instead
        of directly removing blessing from the same object (which requires
        XS). Acme::Damn is the more direct counterpart of bless(). <br>

    Digest::SHA1
        Author: GAAS <https://metacpan.org/author/GAAS>

        Use Digest::SHA instead. In general, there is no reason in using
        Digest::SHA1 over Digest::SHA. The latter is a core Perl module,
        more updated, and implements the other algorithms while the former
        only implements SHA-1 which is now deprecated. <br><br>

    File::Checksum
        Author: KNORR <https://metacpan.org/author/KNORR>

        The &quot;checksum&quot; (basically just adding 16-bit words) is too
        simplistic to be a real checksum or to be practically useful. Even
        MD5 or CRC32 is infinitely better. <br>

    WordPress::XMLRPC
        Author: IGIBBS <https://metacpan.org/author/IGIBBS>

        Still works, partially, but in general out of date. For example, to
        get post the deprecated metaWeblog.getPost API method is still used
        instead of the newer wp.getPost call (which understandably is only
        introduced in WordPress 3.4, while this module is last updated with
        WordPress 2.8.4). And apparently wordpress.com doesn't return
        post_content anymore when you use metaWeblog.getPost.
        <br><br>Luckily, performing XMLRPC request directly is easy enough.
        Just use XMLRPC::Lite and peruse the Wordpress documentation here: