>>>>> On Fri, 31 May 2019 06:50:18 +0200, JJ Merelo <jjmer...@gmail.com> said:
> 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. Can you be more specific as to which users are confused on which level (and scale)? > 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. The usual measures are to never restrict uploading unless there are indications of severe wrongdoing or wreaking havoc. It would be a completely unprecendented move to interfere on the upload level without a very good cause. "That this situation stops" is probably the key phrase here. What is the situation that needs stopping, why, and how many other parts of the eco-system besides PAUSE-uploading-system might be good starting points to consider tweaking (or inventing?)? -- andreas
