Ahh! Sorry about that. I have now marked those (and a few others) old releases for deletion!
Thank you for your work, --Brock On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > Hi Brock, > > 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 This is caused by old (superseded) 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 WWW-HtmlUnit distribution would free up > about 139M, plus you have old releases of 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/AW/AWWAIID/ > > 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
