Hi Lincoln,
I’m emailing you again wearing my PAUSE admin hat. The NOC have let us know
that we’re getting low on diskspace on the CPAN master. This is caused by
packrats who are keeping lots of old releases in their author directory on CPAN.
Care to guess who is the biggest offender? ;-)
The single biggest culprit in terms of distributions is your GBrowse dist,
though you also have a lot of old releases of other dists as well. All releases
you’ve ever done will always be available from your BackPAN author directory:
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/
Would you be happy to cull your old releases please? There are at least 3 ways
we can make this happen:
1. you could use the script written by XDG and RJBS:
https://gist.github.com/xdg/1739bea8ef36c4a48e4d2969bc31bf38
2. you can manually mark files for deletion via the PAUSE interface
3. you can give me permission to do this on your behalf
The script mentioned in (1) above keeps all developer releases later than a
stable release, keeps up to 3 stable releases, and deletes everything else. Use
at your own risk, of course. If you give me permission, I would delete
everything other than the latest release for anything older than a year, and 3
releases of anything less than a year old. When marked for deletion, you’d have
3 days to check and revert anything you’re not happy with, before PAUSE would
actually delete them.
Thanks for your help — please ask if anything isn’t clear, or if you want to
suggest something else.
Cheers,
Neil
