On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:25:40PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > Hi Greg, > > today I stumbled over these files in your CPAN directory: > > % ls -l /home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/*.png > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1521585 Dec 27 22:07 >/home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/basic_license.png > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2311621 Dec 27 22:07 >/home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/exchanges.png > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2311621 Dec 27 22:07 >/home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/ip_spectrum.png > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1616505 Dec 27 22:09 >/home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/ip_timeline.png > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2311621 Dec 27 22:10 >/home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GS/GSLONDON/limit_public_good.png > > You should know that we quite frequently get requests both from CPAN > mirror sites and from people producing CDROMs as well as from > individuals that we should do something to keep CPAN manageable in > size.
Some random thoughts: - Might be useful to have disk space quotas that people can't exceed. Plus a web page to request an increase and explain why. Most requests would be accepted but the very existance of the limit would make people consider more carefully what they're uploading. - Might be useful to have an automatically created file on CPAN that lists a subset of the files, those that are most likely to be 'useful'. For /authors/... the most recent N versions of distributions of modules listed in the module list would be an obvious place to start. Tim.
