Re: PAUSE 504 errors when trying to add a co-maintainer

Hey Neil,

Happy almost Friday! Thanks for the continued follow-ups.

I wasn't able to follow your suggested steps since I get the 504 before I
can reach the "Add comaintainers" page, *but* I think I reached the same
page by clicking "Change Permissions per module" in the left nav. So I
think that should work if I need to add another comaintainer in the future.

I'm a little surprised that the size is still a problem. It looks like the
distributions are only ~1.2MB each, and after the previous versions were
deleted we only have 7 distinct versions on PAUSE. Plus, we're no longer
indexing
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the largest directories after you helped us identify that this was causing
indexing errors. Could there be another issue here or am I missing
something?

Many thanks,
Laura

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 6:38 AM Neil Bowers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Laura,
>
> I think the issue is the number of modules, and some action is timing out.
>
> I discovered a way around this:
>
>    - First click on "Add comaintainers" in the side bar on PAUSE
>    - In the blurb at the top, you'll see there's a link to "Add
>    Comaintainers per module"
>    - If you go there, you get a list of all your modules, and you can
>    tick them individually and then give someone, such as Dora, co-maint.
>    - This is a lot more tedious than just selecting a distribution name
>    and letting PAUSE work out the associated modules, but it doesn't seem to
>    have the timeout problem.
>
> Could you split the old modules off into a different distribution, and
> direct people to that if they want to use an older version of the interface?
>
> You've managed to push PAUSE further than anyone else ever has, so you
> should feel proud. Maybe. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Neil
>
> On 11 Mar 2026 at 14:50 +0000, Laura Chevalier via modules <
> [email protected]>, wrote:
>
> Hey Neil,
>
> I've tried accessing the "Add Comaintainers" page again now that old
> releases have been deleted, but I'm still running into 504s. Since I may
> eventually need to add another comaintainer who isn't Dora, I'd like to
> proactively figure this out. Is it possible there are still too many
> modules? Or might there be another cause for the error?
>
> Many thanks,
> Laura
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM Laura Chevalier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks so much for jumping in to share your expertise and add the missing
>> permissions while I was away, Neil! We really appreciate it.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM Dora Sun <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for all your help, Neil!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dora Sun
>>> Developer Relations Engineer
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:06 AM Neil Bowers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dora,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the follow up, Neil! I'm pretty new to CPAN; is there a good
>>>> way to identify and update modules that haven't been updated in the Index?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When you log into PAUSE, in the left sidebar you'll see "Force
>>>> Reindexing". Click on that, and you'll get a list of the files in your
>>>> author directory:
>>>>
>>>>    - Click on the checkbox next to the .tar.gz file for your most
>>>>    recent release
>>>>    - Scroll to the bottom and hit "Reindex"
>>>>    - That would put it in the queue for reindexing
>>>>    - It can take up to an hour for the reindexing to happen, after
>>>>    which you'll get the usual email from PAUSE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Neil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Laura Chevalier
>> Developer Relations Engineer | Google Ads API
>>
>>
>
> --
> Laura Chevalier
> Developer Relations Engineer | Google Ads API
>
>

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