I've gotten a few requests to remove data from CPAN Testers. I don't know if that has ever been done, and I'm not sure if I'd like to start doing it, but there are some situations that I do not think can be fixed any other way:
Chad Granum (Exodist) wants to see the latest releases of Test-Simple first, but their version numbers are lower than some previously-released versions (and we cannot, to my knowledge, be the arbiter of those kind of problems). This results in issues like http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Test-Simple> and http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Test-Simple <http://beta.cpantesters.org/chart.html?dist=Test-Simple> where these invalid versions are shown first. There's also simply a _lot_ of data on CPAN Testers, some of which is for distributions that are no longer installable on CPAN (distributions available only on Backpan). This slows down a lot of otherwise simple procedures. If there was a way to move this data to another place, a lot of the normal operation of the site would be faster. However, partitioning the site like this would likely require a bunch of changes to downstream systems (which would have to decide which side of the partition they want). This doesn't sound like an insurmountable problem: The APIs default to "all" and you can opt-in to the faster "cpan" partition. We could just fix the Test-Simple issue (and other similar issues) by deleting the data that will never be relevant again: Test-Simple 2.0 was never released and only got development versions. Then we could discuss/develop longer-term solutions for the other issues. Does anyone have any other thoughts/opinions? Doug Bell d...@preaction.me
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