# from Pedro Melo on Friday 07 September 2012:
>... personal modules that don't fit into any other namespace, for
>public experimental modules, and for author metadata.
>...
>You can skip indexing them on search/metacpan, or index them and not
>include them on general search results. Make that opt-in.
>
>You can more aggressively remove old versions. You can delete old
>versions to Backpan. Or even send skip sending them at all to Backpan.
>
>And you can skip them when you create your local CPAN mirror, pulling
>only your own namespace.
It sounds like you're mostly talking about experimental modules (or
experimental forks of existing ones) -- which is not what I would call
"personal", so I think that's the wrong term for this discussion (and
somewhat loaded/possessive.)
I think the notion of using your PAUSE ID as a sub-namespace is pretty
well-established for BeLike &c (for better or worse.)
As for the plan of having somewhere to put experiments or forks,
Author::EWILHELM doesn't seem right, and it's also too long, and what if
I wrote it, but at some point in the future, someone else is going to
maintain/co-maintain it? This problem of "what to name a fork" is
partly an artifact of not having namespace/authority support in
require(), no? Why not name the first fork of Foo, X1::Foo and if
someone wants to fork it again, X2::Foo, etc? The same could work for
experiments like x201209090002.pm
If you're tempted to prefix a distribution with your name, why is that?
What if we just had a tmp:: namespace and deleted anything in there
older than 2 years?
I think there's some way to control indexing with meta.ymlson, though
one would probably want to go read the mldistwatch code and see.
As for what's in a backpan: that's an rsync cron job running on many
servers (some of which may have been drywalled-over by now) and not
likely to change much unless disk space gets much more expensive.
--Eric
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