Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:39:27AM -0400, David Nicol wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@perl.org wrote: The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution. so don't. How much

Re: Tidy up your PAUSE directories

2010-04-02 Thread Jeffrey
On Mar 31, 2:51 am, tim.bu...@pobox.com (Tim Bunce) wrote: It would be handy if there was a way for authors to indicate that new maintainers are sought. Perhaps via the META.yaml/(.json) file. It would also be handy if that (or another) mechanism would also indicate orphaned modules -- modules

Re: Distributing the CPAN

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:53PM +0300, Burak Gürsoy wrote: From: Tim Bunce [mailto:tim.bu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bunce Subject: Distributing the CPAN * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo. * Over time the number of cpan-git-mirror's and cpan-git-server's

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Apr 1, 2010, at 19:49, Arthur Corliss wrote: I can't believe I'm doing this, but ... The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution. It's Just Nuts. Sure, it's only something like 400k files/inodes now - but at the rate it's going it'll be a lot more soon enough.

Re: Tidy up your PAUSE directories

2010-04-02 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jeffrey jeffreykeg...@jeffreykegler.com wrote: On Mar 31, 2:51 am, tim.bu...@pobox.com (Tim Bunce) wrote: It would be handy if there was a way for authors to indicate that new maintainers are sought. Perhaps via the META.yaml/(.json) file. It would also be

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-02 Thread Eakin, Lee
Much of this discussion is beyond my depth but in terms of keeping it simple, and trying to limit the stat calls on the upstream servers, what about DNS as a replication model? You could break up the tree at logical divisions similar to zones and assign them serial numbers (say a .serial file)

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-04-02 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Ask Bj?rn Hansen wrote: On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:50, Arthur Corliss wrote: And my assertion has been that the excessive stats by the server are a bigger impediment to synchronization than the inode count. Well, then one of us don't understand how file systems etc work. :-)

Normal wait time for PAUSE ID's

2010-04-02 Thread Jonathan Leto
Howdy, One of my ex-coworkers has some very nice code that he wants to put on CPAN. It has been over a week since he applied for his PAUSE ID (PVANDE). Is this normal? Does anybody know the appropriate person to poke? Duke -- Jonathan Duke Leto jonat...@leto.net http://leto.net