Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-06 Thread Doug Bell
> On Jul 6, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > > On 6 July 2017 at 17:37, Doug Bell wrote: >> To me, that makes it a non-solution: >> Forcing everyone using the data to figure out which data is invalid is too >> high a burden. If we simply hide the data from any and all APIs that CPAN >> Te

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-06 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 11:40:07AM +1000, Ron Savage wrote: > 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? Wearing my author hat I very much want to see test results on older versions of perl. Even

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-06 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6 July 2017 at 17:37, Doug Bell wrote: > To me, that makes it a non-solution: > Forcing everyone using the data to figure out which data is invalid is too > high a burden. If we simply hide the data from any and all APIs that CPAN > Testers has, that is, to me, worse than deleting it, since it

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Doug Bell
Disk space is not a concern, and as long as ServerCentral is donating the database server, likely won't be: 80,000,000 records are taking up about 500G, and we've got twice that available on SSD, and 8x that available on NAS, and that was just hardware we had lying around and could toss together

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Ron Savage
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 o

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Karen Etheridge
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, Ro

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Ron Savage
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,

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Karen Etheridge
Define "versions of Perl which are no longer supported"? On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Ron Savage 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 B

Re: Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Ron Savage
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

Removing/hiding data from CPAN Testers

2017-07-05 Thread Doug Bell
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-Simpl