Hi Doug
How much change would result, and how difficult would it be, if you
deleted data pertaining to version of Perl which are no longer supported?
On 06/07/17 10:03, Doug Bell wrote:
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 and
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 <mailto:d...@preaction.me>
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