Andy Lester recently had a great post on the public web interface to CPAN, proposing nothing less than a total overhaul to make the massive software library more useful to the army of Perl programmers. I've long thought that updating some of the prime perl-hubs like CPAN and useperl.org would go a long way towards re-vitalizing and re-invigorating the community. As it stands, CPAN has grown so large it's difficult to know which module to use to accomplish your tasks.

Rethinking the interface to CPAN