On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 10:23:37PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Ricardo SIGNES > > Personally, I'd just rather keep "author" since it all lives in > "authors/id/X/XY/..." anyway.
I'm happy to keep author, as most people realise that it also means uploader, maintainer, etc. However, I also reference it as pauseid, if you wanted to avoid misinterpretation. Then in some documentation you could then explain that the association between a pauseid and the distribution release is simply the identity of the person who uploaded that version of the distribution to PAUSE. That person could be the current maintainer, a release manager or the original author. The uniquness of a distribution is the pauseid, the distribution name, the distribution version *and* the archive extension. The latter is important as there have been .zip and .tar.gz uploads that match the other 3. However, they are still the same distribution release and currently reports on either are attributed to the distribution version. I only mention it in that if you are going to store the path, then there may be more than one. Likewise there have been uploads that have added an extra sub-directory into the path, although I don't think that any have done it with the same release. Cheers, Barbie. -- 2009 QA Hackathon <http://qa-hackathon.org> Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
