Hi Karen
Obviously I suggested as one mechanism to reduce the size of the disk
space used.
As for versions, perhaps zap 5.10.0 and older?
And yes, I'm aware there may be older versions running in the wild, but
the point is to manage the CPAN (Tester) infrastructure within the
capabilities of the volunteers, not to support everything endlessly.
On 06/07/17 14:10, Karen Etheridge wrote:
I'm not sure why you'd suggest it then? What Perl versions would *you*
suggest be removed from cpantesters?
I would contend that all results are valuable. Helping preserve
backwards compatibility is one of the great things that the cpantesters
network brings us.
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au
<mailto:r...@savage.net.au>> wrote:
Hi Karen
I paused over that statement, but I'm sure there are persons with
the Perl 5 porters group, for example, who may be able to specify
same, in a way I'm not qualified to do :-).
On 06/07/17 11:50, Karen Etheridge wrote:
Define "versions of Perl which are no longer supported"?
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au
<mailto:r...@savage.net.au>
<mailto:r...@savage.net.au <mailto:r...@savage.net.au>>> wrote:
Hi Doug
How much change would result, and how difficult would it be,
if you
deleted data pertaining to version of Perl which are no longer
supported?
On 06/07/17 10:03, Doug Bell wrote:
I've gotten a few requests to remove data from CPAN
Testers. I don't
know if that has ever been done, and I'm not sure if I'd
like to
start
doing it, but there are some situations that I do not
think can
be fixed
any other way:
Chad Granum (Exodist) wants to see the latest releases of
Test-Simple
first, but their version numbers are lower than some
previously-released
versions (and we cannot, to my knowledge, be the arbiter of
those kind
of problems). This results in issues
like http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple
<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple>
<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple
<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple>> and
http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Test-Simple
<http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Test-Simple>
<http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Test-Simple
<http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Test-Simple>> where
these invalid versions are shown first.
There's also simply a _lot_ of data on CPAN Testers, some of
which is
for distributions that are no longer installable on CPAN
(distributions
available only on Backpan). This slows down a lot of
otherwise
simple
procedures. If there was a way to move this data to another
place, a lot
of the normal operation of the site would be faster.
However,
partitioning the site like this would likely require a
bunch of
changes
to downstream systems (which would have to decide which
side of the
partition they want). This doesn't sound like an
insurmountable
problem:
The APIs default to "all" and you can opt-in to the faster
"cpan" partition.
We could just fix the Test-Simple issue (and other similar
issues) by
deleting the data that will never be relevant again:
Test-Simple
2.0 was
never released and only got development versions. Then
we could
discuss/develop longer-term solutions for the other issues.
Does anyone have any other thoughts/opinions?
Doug Bell
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