Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Neil Bowers]

Hi Lee,

I just realised that I never replied to this follow-up:

> since my repos are taking up more space than usual, what do you think about 
> if I create a module to contain these test data? The module could create a 
> requested file type for testing in other modules. It would be a large module 
> itself but could decrease the size of others.

If you’ve got large test data used in multiple CPAN distributions, then 
splitting the test data into a separate distribution is one option.

Another option you could consider: you could reduce the amount of data shipped 
with each distribution, and then create author / release tests that use a 
larger data set, which would then not be included in the release to CPAN. If 
your dists are on github, you could include the large test data in the repo, 
just not in the CPAN tarballs.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Lee Katz]

Hi Neil, since my repos are taking up more space than usual, what do you
think about if I create a module to contain these test data? The module
could create a requested file type for testing in other modules. It would
be a large module itself but could decrease the size of others.

On Nov 3, 2017 07:25, "Neil Bowers"  wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> > Ok, great.  I made you a co-maintainer of my modules.  Or I can change
> whatever permissions might help.  At this time, I only need to keep the
> latest versions of Bio::Kmer, Mashtree, and Mashtree sub-modules.  You can
> delete previous versions.
>
> Thank you for that. I’ll schedule the deletions — you’ll get an email from
> PAUSE to let you know when I’ve done that, and the files won’t actually be
> deleted for 3 days.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
>
>

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Neil Bowers]

Hi Lee,

> Ok, great.  I made you a co-maintainer of my modules.  Or I can change 
> whatever permissions might help.  At this time, I only need to keep the 
> latest versions of Bio::Kmer, Mashtree, and Mashtree sub-modules.  You can 
> delete previous versions.

Thank you for that. I’ll schedule the deletions — you’ll get an email from 
PAUSE to let you know when I’ve done that, and the files won’t actually be 
deleted for 3 days.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Neil Bowers]

Hi Daniel,

> Thanks for the heads up, and sorry for taking up too much space! I believe 
> I've scheduled the majority of my old artifacts for deletion from PAUSE.
> 
> If that didn't work, or if we still need to delete more artifacts, you have 
> my permission to delete any of the artifacts that I have under my name.

Thank you — I just scheduled a few more deletions, as there were a couple more 
large old releases :-)

Cheers,
Neil

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Neil Bowers]

Hi Nigel,

> It would help tremendously to have a "delete now" feature. Sometimes I 
> publish and CPAN testers make it clear that I've sent something that doesn't 
> work somewhere, but a deletion takes a few days.

There’s an open issue for this:
https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/163 


You could add your +1 for this, and I’ll put it on a list of potential tasks 
for the Toolchain Summit next year.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Nigel Horne]

Neil:

It would help tremendously to have a "delete now" feature. Sometimes I 
publish and CPAN testers make it clear that I've sent something that 
doesn't work somewhere, but a deletion takes a few days.


-Nigel


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CPAN: tidying up your author directory

[Neil Bowers]

Dear CPAN authors,

I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat. The Perl NOC have informed us that 
the CPAN Master site, which is on an SSD, is getting a bit full. At some point 
it will be moving to a bigger disk, but in the meantime they’ve asked if we can 
help free up some space.

You are the top 40 authors in terms of the space time up by old releases. 
Please delete some or all of your old releases. There are three ways you can do 
this:

Use the “Delete Files” feature in the PAUSE web interface.
Give me permission to do that on your behalf. Scary, I know, but when I do this 
you’ll get an email listing what I marked for deletion, and you’ll have 3 days 
to change your mind.
You can use this script — 
https://gist.github.com/xdg/1739bea8ef36c4a48e4d2969bc31bf38 
 — which was 
written by Rik Signes and tweaked by David Golden. Karen Etheridge (ETHER) has 
her own version of that script as well: 
https://github.com/karenetheridge/misc/blob/master/install/generic/bin/pause-cleanup
 


You may be thinking “Couldn’t you just … “, and you’re probably right, but 
we’re all volunteers here, so I’m asking you to help out.

Thanks,
Neil