Define "versions of Perl which are no longer supported"? On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote:
> 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> >> >> >> >> > -- > Ron Savage - savage.net.au >
