I haven't kept up with the indexer rules, but I think the About PAUSE page is out of date. I was looking to answer David Farrell's Stackoverflow question with the basic things the indexer looks at:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39821588/why-isnt-my-cpan-distribution-indexed-by-pause -- brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> http://www.pair.com/~comdog/