Hi Neil, Thanks for the advice. After reading the options, it's probably easier if I just keep the account open. Don't want to pull the rug as you say.
Thanks again, Alfie > On 7 Nov 2020, at 04:36, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > > Hi Alfie, > > I’m one of the PAUSE admins. > I would like to delete my Pause account (ALFIE). Is this possible, because I > can't find any link within pause.cpan.org. > > There isn’t a "delete user" function, because what’s possible / preferable > depends on whether you’ve ever uploaded to PAUSE, and you have. > > You have 7 distributions on CPAN, and although none of them are used by any > other distributions on CPAN, we’ve no way of knowing whether anyone is > relying on them for off-CPAN code (aka "DarkPAN"). > > While it is possible for you to delete all of your files from your author > directory on PAUSE, which will remove them from CPAN, if possible we’d > encourage you not to do this, as it could pull the rug from under someone > who’s using one or more of your modules. > > There are a number of possibilities, and which one you prefer depends on what > you’re trying to achieve: > • Your modules have your name in the documentation. You could do one > more release of each of them, changing the author to just "ALFIE". Then we > could change the name and other details on your PAUSE account, so it > essentially is left as an anonymous account (though see BackPAN note below). > So anyone who has saved a reference to ALFIE can still find your modules that > way, but there’d be no reference to your name. > • We could transfer ownership of all of your distributions to another > account, and have that account do a release of each of them, so that becomes > the latest one on CPAN. You could then delete all the files in your author > directory on PAUSE without the distributions disappearing from CPAN. The > ALFIE account would then be anonymous and empty. There is a JANITOR account > that we could use for this purpose. > • These are all your modules, so if you choose to, you could delete all > files from your account and blank out the fields of your PAUSE profile. > Please note that all past releases to CPAN are always available on BackPAN, > so no matter which of the above you choose, your old releases can be found. > > Hopefully either option 1 or 2 would work for you? Let me know if you’ve any > questions on the above, or want to float another option. > > Cheers, > Neil > -- Alfie John https://www.alfie.wtf
