I'm not sure why you'd suggest it then? What Perl versions would *you* suggest be removed from cpantesters?
I would contend that all results are valuable. Helping preserve backwards compatibility is one of the great things that the cpantesters network brings us. On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote: > Hi Karen > > I paused over that statement, but I'm sure there are persons with the Perl > 5 porters group, for example, who may be able to specify same, in a way I'm > not qualified to do :-). > > On 06/07/17 11:50, Karen Etheridge wrote: > >> Define "versions of Perl which are no longer supported"? >> >> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au >> <mailto: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 >> <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 <mailto:d...@preaction.me> >> <mailto:d...@preaction.me <mailto:d...@preaction.me>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ron Savage - savage.net.au <http://savage.net.au> >> >> >> > -- > Ron Savage - savage.net.au >
