Dear administrators: This letter is to draw your attention to the situation that has arisen in the Perl 6 community with user HOLYGHOST. In a nutshell, for the past months he's been uploading new modules and new versions of modules to the tune of several a day sometimes. These modules have barely any tests (or no tests at all), and in many cases they don't even compile since they are written in an invented version of Perl 6. In most cases, if not all, they are uploaded directly to CPAN without the intermediate step of using a source control system. That is not a problem per se, the main problem is that, by dint of simply not compiling (or not taking the time to compile them before uploading them to CPAN), they don't pass the minimum standard of quality required for Perl 6 module (not to mention a syntactically correct program), yet they show up in searches, in modules pages and in the Twitter bot that does such thing, provoking confusion among users. We have repeatedly drawn this to the attention of the user. Just a few examples: * https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-05-28#l196 * https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-05-28#l241 * https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-05-28#l413 * https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-05-28#l424 * Here I told him, in no uncertain terms, that I would take measures if he kept uploading modules to CPAN https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-05-28#l629. His answer was: "Sure".
In this conversation in the #perl6 channel, he agreed on deleting all the modules from CPAN https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-05-29#l194 Yep today he's uploaded a new version of another module. This is why I kindly ask to revoke his uploading privileges to CPAN, or take the measures that are usual in these cases so that this situation stops. Thanks a lot -- JJ (JMERELO in CPAN)
