Re: so long, CPAN

On Sunday-201009-26 8:16, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
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> On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:49, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
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>> It has become the time for me to admit to what has probably been pretty
>> obvious for anyone else already for some time - I do not have the time
>> to give CPAN the attention it deserves.  Time to pass the baton, etc.
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> Thank you Jarkko -- had it not been for your early invention and work with CPAN I don't think many of us would be here or be as productive with Perl as we are.

On a more urgent note: could you and Elaine coordinate on moving/copying
stuff out of gargoyle where e.g. the mirrors.cpan.org runs?
The webster.edu has given us a strong hint of moving out a.s.a.p.
I think the first order of things would be just copying data out of
gargoyle, we can worry about the services later.

In the FUNET side things are not as critical to move out though their
admins do worry about the insane rsync load.  Whatever the future
system is, direct plain rsync connections should not be recommended:
rsync is just too heavy.  I and Elaine do have accounts to FUNET
and can move stuff in and out (more accounts though not impossible
are unlikely).

Regarding the maintenance scripts in FUNET: there isn't much that I
would be, ahem, proud to share: they are mostly dead simple shell /
very early Perl 5 scripts.  For 95% of that stuff I would recommend 
writing from scratch.  Perhaps the most important new thing needed
would be some sort of CPAN mirror staleness alerting script, as input
using Henk Pennings' mirror scan results.  I had over the years a few of
those systems, all of them rotted eventually.  As an extension of just
checking the timestamp of the magical timestamp file, it would be nice
to have some sort of random sampling of mirrors: are they really valid
uptodate mirrors?

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