Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] (Rene Schickbauer)
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David Nicol wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Elaine Ashton <[email protected]> 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. Hmm, this can *only* work as long as that model is not applied to the main server: Just because a module is seldomly used doesn't automatically mean it is not vital to *someone*. Modules that might fit into this category are many Acme modules. For example, i use Acme::Don't sometimes, cause it's better better for temporarly commenting out code sections than "if(0)".... LG Rene