Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-24 Thread Olaf Alders
> On Mar 24, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > >>> 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

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-24 Thread Neil Bowers
>> 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

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-24 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:07 PM, David Golden wrote: > If you don't know what I'm referring to, read > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/ > > Leaving aside the IP issue, I think it might be worth considering what > would currently happen if someone chose a

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-24 Thread Neil Bowers
> However, we (the CPAN community) can do a lot of things after that to > mitigate any damage. I wholeheartedly agree with transferring namespace > permissions to something that the PAUSE admins control, so any random joe > cannot claim the namespace and upload whatever he likes into it (this

Re: Thoughts on Kik and NPM and implications for CPAN

2016-03-24 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: > > It would be nice to have a feed of all dists scheduled for deletion, as > soon as they’re > I really only want email for *indexed* distributions, not for deletion of old or trial dists. (Could you imagine the