Hi Oliver, I’m emailing you 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 This is caused by old (superseded) releases being retained in CPAN author directories.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.
You have a lot of old versions of App-Netdisco in your author directory — if you deleted all but the most recent one, you’d free up 91M. Even if you kept the last couple of releases, that’d be a good saving. And while you’re there, old releases of other dists could be tidied up too! 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. Jeffrey, Garu, and Kartik: even if you use the script, please consider deleting all SDL releases in your directory, unless there’s some reason to keep one of them around? 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. Assuming you’re coming to the pub on the 18th, if you’ve deleted all your old releases by then, I’ll buy you a pint :-) Cheers, Neil
