On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Elaine Ashton <eash...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Randy Kobes wrote: > >> >> Has some sort of disk quota system for CPAN author accounts ever been >> considered? > > Not specifically, no, at least not that I'm aware of. That would have to be > implemented on PAUSE and quotas frequently end up not solving the real > problem and create a headache both for the sysadmin and the users.
new proposal: Make modules "pay rent" in order to remain on a mirror. Rent could be in the form of actual user interest, or good reviews. Use as a dependency could count as rent. Or simple downloading. A mirror server that functioned more as a cache than a mirror would also work: only the files that are actually requested need be stored, as long as the mirror server knows how to get something else if requested. If the root cause of The Pain turns out to be "full mirroring" then do partial mirroring, and automate the partition with a policy instead of trying to plan the partition. -- question doubt
