Hi Andrew,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. The NOC have let us know that we’re getting low on
diskspace on the CPAN master. This is caused by old (superseded) releases being
retained in CPAN author directories. So we’ve identified the authors who can
free up the most diskspace by deleting old releases from their author directory.
Deleting the old releases of your Bio-Roary distribution would free up about
205M, plus you have old releases of your other distributions as well.
Would you be happy to cull your old releases from your CPAN author directory
please? All releases you’ve ever done will always be available from your
BackPAN author directory:
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AJ/AJPAGE/
There are at least 3 ways we can make this happen:
1. you could use the script here:
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) was written by David Golden and Rik Signes. It
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
