Yep, I'll sort this out - thanks for the heads-up! See you on the 18th :-).
Oliver. Sent from the moon. > On 8 Jul 2016, at 22:59, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > > 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 (superseded) releases being retained in CPAN author directories.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 >
