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<a name="editall"></a><h3>Can I edit other people's notes?</h3>

<p>No, unless you somehow get moderator privileges.</p>

<a name="delete"></a><h3>What's the difference between "hiding" and "deleting" a note?</h3>

<p>Deletion is irreversible and global, meaning that the note will disappear 
from all versions of the POD; hiding is reversible and local, meaning that
the note is hidden only for a specific version of the POD.</p>

<a name="unhide"></a><h3>How do I unhide a note?</h3>

<p>If you go to <code>[% root_uri_abs %]/note/<em>note_id</em></code>, you will
see a list of where the note is listed for each version of a POD, along with
checkboxes for hiding and unhiding notes.</p>

<h2>For Module Authors</h2>

<a name="author_rss"></a><h3>How can I know when someone posts a note to one of my modules?</h3>

<p>You can subscribe to an RSS feed at <code>[% root_uri_abs
%]/~<i>pauseid</i>/recent.rss</code> or view the notes directly at <code>[%
root_uri_abs %]/~<i>pauseid</i>/recent.html</code>. There are plans for setting
up an email notification system as well.</p>

<a name="author_update"></a><h3>What happens if I upgrade my documentation, making a note obsolete?</h3>

<p>The notes can be hidden from the new versions, while keeping them for the
old versions of the documentation (if it's still on CPAN). If the change to the
document was big enough, this might happen automatically; if note, either the
note author or a moderator can do it manually.</p>

<h2>Technical</h2>

<a name="conf"></a><h3>What's the %confidence?</h3>

<p>When a note is added to a document, the software tries to guess where
would the same note go in other versions of the same document. This is based
on a text similarity analysis which provides a quantitative estimate
expressed as a percentage.</p>

<p>For example, let's say that you add a note to My::Module in My-Dist-0.10,
next to a paragraph that says "this is a paragraph". When version 0.20 comes
out, let's say that the paragraph moved and was modified to say "this is
one paragraph". The similarity search decides that this is still the same
paragraph with a confidence of 95% and assigns the note accordingly.</p>

<a name="absurd"></a><h3>A note is in an absurd place! Why's that?</h3>

<p>The notes are assigned to other versions of the document by using the method
discussed above. As with all heuristics, there will be mistakes, especially
when a paragraph is completely deleted or modified very heavily. In these cases
it is necessary to move the note manually or hide it if it no longer
applies.</p>

<a name="browser"></a><h3>What are the browser requirements?</h3>

<p>IE 6, Mozilla/Firefox, Netscape 7, Opera 7, etc., although it should degrade
gracefully in text browsers such as Lynx. It will likely not look reasonable
in browsers with severely broken CSS implementations. JavaScript is recommended
but not strictly required. Cookies are required for authentication. A monitor
resolution of 1024x768 or greater is recommended, especially if you want the
notes to show on the margin.</p>

<a name="uses"></a><h3>What does AnnoCPAN run on?</h3>

<p>Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl. Some of the most notable modules used include
the 
[% link_dist_name("Template-Toolkit") %], 
[% link_dist_name("Class-DBI") %], 
[% link_dist_name("Archive-Tar") %], and
[% link_dist_name("Archive-Zip") %].</p>

<h2>Contact, Bugs &amp; Features</h2>

<a name="contact"></a><h3>Who can I contact?</h3>

<p>You can send general comments, suggestions, money, etc., to <a
href="mailto:itub@cpan.org">itub@cpan.org</a>.  For bug reports please use the
<a href="http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=AnnoCPAN">request
tracker</a>.</p>

<a name="missing"></a><h3>Why is <i>X</i> distribution missing, or module
<i>Y</i> in the wrong place?</h3>

<p>Although most of the distributions on CPAN are packaged in reasonably 
standard ways, there are a few with strange variations that confuse the
AnnoCPAN software. If you find one of these cases, please report it.</p>

<h2>AnnoCPAN Code and Data</h2>

<a name="code"></a><h3>Can I get the code?</h3>

<p>The code is available on CPAN under the same terms as Perl itself as the [%
link_dist_name("AnnoCPAN") %] distribution. It is also available on <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=122046">anonymous CVS</a>, including
a <a href="http://cvs.annocpan.org/viewcvs.py/annocpan/annocpan2">viewcvs web
interface</a></p>

<a name="server"></a><h3>What are the technical requirements for installation?</h3>

<p>Besides the modules and software listed above, it needs a local CPAN mirror
and a lot of space for the database. 4 GB or more of free space are
recommended.</p>

<a name="license"></a><h3>What's the license for the notes?</h3>

<p>All the notes are available <a
href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/README">under the same terms as Perl
itself</a>. The entire note database can be downloaded as an 
<a href="[% root_uri_rel %]/note_dump.xml">XML Dump</a>.</p>

<a name="rss"></a><h3>Can I get RSS feeds?</h3>

<p>Yes, the sitewide recent notes are available as RSS 1.0: <a href="[%
root_uri_rel %]/recent.rss">recent.rss</a>. The notes for a given PAUSE ID are
available at <code>[% root_uri_abs %]/~<i>pauseid</i>/recent.rss</code> .  RSS
feeds per module and per distribution are also being considered.  
</p>
<p>There is also a feed of new distributions at <a href="[%
root_uri_rel %]/recent_dists.rss">recent_dists.rss</a>. Note that this feed