On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Randy Kobes wrote: > > Has some sort of disk quota system for CPAN author accounts ever been > considered?
Not specifically, no, at least not that I'm aware of. That would have to be implemented on PAUSE and quotas frequently end up not solving the real problem and create a headache both for the sysadmin and the users. Jarkko and I were talking about it this morning - as he's not in favour of pruning - while trying to think of a way around the size problem and he reminded me of the idea that, if I recall correctly was Adreas' suggestion a while back, there be an A, B and C 'PAN' of sorts where you could pull varying degrees of content - sort of CPAN:Mini writ large. I don't think that idea ever got any traction because it wouldn't really solve some of the issues for the major upstream mirrors and the mechanics of deciding where to draw the lines between them. I still think it's a good idea though. I do very much like Tim's proposal for giving old modules a push to BackPAN since, with proper communication of the changes to the authors along with a way to mark exceptions, this would rid CPAN of a lot of cruft that should be on BackPan anyway. e.
