Neil,

Thank you for notifying me.  Just took option 1 and confirmed the result via 
PAUSE.

DANKOGAI

> On Jul 8, 2016, at 02:25, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kogai-san,
> 
> 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 This is caused by old (superseded) releases 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 Encode distribution would free up about 
> 140M, plus you have old releases of your other distributions (such as 
> Unicode-Unihan and Encode-JIS2K) 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/D/DA/DANKOGAI/
> 
> 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
> 

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