Re: Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 05:31:11PM -0400, David Golden wrote:

> (b) We could extend PAUSE's permission system distribution names as
> well, so that distribution names would have primary/co-maint rights
> just as packages do.  This would not fix any existing duplicates, but
> would prevent future infractions.  It means changing a lot of PAUSE
> code, but would allow RT, search sites and CPAN Testers (CT) to pretty
> much remain as is.

This seems like the most sensible way to go.  It fixes the problem in
one place with no significant impact on anyone else.  I imagine that
because you've only just noticed this there aren't that many duplicates
anyway, and I would expect at least some of those to be mistakes that
people would be happy to have deleted.

> (d) RT, search sites and CT stop using distribution name as a key and
> revert either to package names or to distfile in some fashion.  This
> is not a trivial amount of code change and -- in the case of RT --
> might make RT much more complicated and less useful.

RT is a commercial tool, and rt.cpan exists because Best Practical
graciously let us use it for free.  Let's not ask them to do any work,
unless there's an actual bug in RT - which I don't think there is.

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