>> PAUSE doesn’t (currently) know the river position, but if it published >> a feed of deletion-schedulings, then some third-party agent could >> monitor the feed and check for dists that are on river. I think those >> are the dists that should be alerted to modules@ […] Obviously the >> issue here is DarkPAN: a dist might not have any CPAN dependents, but >> may be used plenty out in the big bad world. That’s a separate problem >> :-) > > I don’t think so. Plack::Middleware::Rewrite is used by a ton of people > and klaxons certainly ought to ring if I ever opened up that namespace. > The number of on-CPAN dependents is just 3 though.
The key word in what I said was *any*. I think even 3 dependents should klaxon. Plus having any favourites on CPAN should also prompt the klaxon as well: I use favourites as a proxy for “has dependents” in both the adoption list and weighting dists for the PRC, and it seems to work. I still think we need a service where you can say “I’m using this dist”. I think I’ll add that feature to the dashboard, which I’ll be working on at the QAH. Neil
