Hi Christopher,
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(superseded) releases being retained in CPAN author directories.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.
Your CPAN directory has a lot of old releases of BioPerl:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/C/CJ/CJFIELDS/
It looks like you could keep the 1.7.0_2 developer release, and the 1.6.924
stable release, scheduling all others for deletion?
You could also purge old releases of a number of your other distributions 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.
Cheers,
Neil
