On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:26:27 +0100 Neil Bowers <ne...@neilb.org> wrote:
> Hi Paul, > > TL;DR: when you release "meta" you’ll be granted first-come > > I saw that you’re going to be releasing "meta" soon, and that there > was an impending permissions conflict, as Mark Veltzer had the only > indexing permission on "Meta". > > His Meta distribution hasn’t been released since 2002, and didn’t > actually contain a Meta package. A few years back a restriction was > introduced to PAUSE which says that when you release a distribution > Foobar, you must have an indexing permission on the package Foobar. > Usually this is achieved by including a module of the same name, and > most people aren’t even aware of the restriction. There were some > historical packages which broke this rule, and they were > retrospectively supported by manually adding the required indexing > permissions. > > With Mark’s blessing, I have just dropped the indexing permission on > Meta, so when you do a non-developer release of "meta" you’ll get the > first-come indexing permission. Ah excellent. So, uhmm... I wasn't sure what the process might be so actually I've already made a placeholder 0.001 release and a development release that has real code in it. Is it possible to get them post-hoc indexed now, or do I need to upload them again with a new version number? -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/
