* On Tue, Jan 27 2009, Andy Lester wrote: > On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > >>> Can I prevent people from opening tickets on rt.cpan,org. Does the >>> bugtracker item in META.yml cascade through to the front page of >>> search.cpan? >> >> No, it doesn't. > > > Yes, it does. See > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PETDANCE/ack-1.86/META.yml > and how it reflects on http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack/
Ah, I read this as "the front page of RT.CPAN", which is not aware of anything in META.yml. > It would be nice if rt.cpan.org allowed authors to shut down queues, > but hey, I'm not arguing with a free service. The idea is for something to exist for when authors Go Away, their email address stops working, and their own bugtracker 404s. Of course, RT also works when the author is still around. :) Regards, Jonathan Rockway -- print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
