Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 04/23/2014 08:42 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: In case you are not reading blogs.perl.org, brian d foy just sent out the regular spring cleaning call: http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2014/04/lets-delete-1-files-from-cpan.html We're a month into spring and some of the world just

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi David, On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:16:56 -0700 David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 04/23/2014 08:42 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: In case you are not reading blogs.perl.org, brian d foy just sent out the regular spring cleaning call:

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread Brian Cassidy
Hey y'all, I had sent a private message to bdfoy about this, but he suggested I present it to the list to be discussed. On the aforementioned blog post, Ether mentions an interesting case where old releases by other authors are obviously not cleaned up. Specifically, I'm interested in the case

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread Joshua Turcotte
While potentially simplistic in its ideal, I can't help but think this could and should be a democratic process; folk nominate examples like GMPASSOS's old work, there's a rebuttal period, and then others vote on it in search of critical thought and mass. Poof. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:44 AM,

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread Todd Rinaldo
This problem bothers me too. +1 to any process we might be able to put in place. On Apr 25, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Joshua Turcotte joshua.eric.turco...@gmail.com wrote: While potentially simplistic in its ideal, I can't help but think this could and should be a democratic process; folk nominate

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:16:56AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 1. I doubt the people whose systems depend upon those disappearing CPAN distributions will find it to be fun. That's not a nice thing to do to people, and it's going to create negative reactions for Perl, CPAN, and FOSS.

Re: Let's delete 10,000 files from CPAN

2014-04-25 Thread David Christensen
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: ... What is needed is way to take the best results of TIMTOWTDI and unify them into a coherent programming systems product [1]. Has anyone seen an effective way to do this? On 04/25/2014 12:53 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: There's