User update for ANDYCRAGG
Record update in the PAUSE users database: userid: [ANDYCRAGG] fullname: [Andy Cragg] asciiname: [] email: [CENSORED] homepage: [http://www.caesuramedia.com] cpan_mail_alias: [secr] was [none] ustatus: [unused] Data were entered by ANDYCRAGG (Andy Cragg). Please check if they are correct. Thanks, The Pause
Abuse of CPAN: Net-FullAuto-1.0000327
CPAN Librarians, The author of Net-FullAuto-1.327 has continued, for two years, to upload an inexorable stream of incomprehensible drivel. CPAN is being abused here; there is no meaningful attempt to create anything useful. CPAN guidelines for authors are not being followed. The Makefile.PL can only be characterised as malicious. The author seems impervious to savage reviews, so clearly he is not employed anywhere where reputational damage might have some measurable effect on salary and career prospects. IMHO, this is one of those rare occasions where robust action by CPAN librarians would be fully justified. As a minimum, authors maintainer rights over Net-FullAuto should be removed to prevent further uploads, and existing versions deleted. Longer term there may be value in rate-limiting uploads to an average of 10 per distro per year. Sufficient to recover from the occasional mishap, but strict enough to persuade legitimate authors to test stuff properly before uploading and CPAN spammers to lose interest. Dick Franks
User update for DHA
Record update in the PAUSE users database: userid: [DHA] fullname: [David H. Adler] asciiname: [] email: [CENSORED] homepage: [] cpan_mail_alias: [secr] was [publ] Data were entered by DHA (David H. Adler). Please check if they are correct. Thanks, The Pause
User update for DHA
Record update in the PAUSE users database: userid: [DHA] fullname: [David H. Adler] asciiname: [] email: [CENSORED] homepage: [] cpan_mail_alias: [publ] was [none] Data were entered by DHA (David H. Adler). Please check if they are correct. Thanks, The Pause
PAUSE ID request (HALLORAN; Damien O'Halloran)
Request to register new user fullname: Damien O'Halloran userid: HALLORAN mail: CENSORED homepage: www.ohalloranlab.net why: I would like to obtain a PAUSE ID to contribute Perl modules to the community. In particular my research area is bioinformatics and I use the Bioperl suite of modules a lot and would like to contribute to this effort The following links are only valid for PAUSE maintainers: Registration form with editing capabilities: https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_user&USERID=0a21_bd7c6b4e15b6f21e&SUBMIT_pause99_add_user_sub=1 Immediate (one click) registration: https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_user&USERID=0a21_bd7c6b4e15b6f21e&SUBMIT_pause99_add_user_Definitely=1
Welcome new user HALLORAN
Welcome Damien O'Halloran, PAUSE, the Perl Authors Upload Server, has a userid for you: HALLORAN Once you've gone through the procedure of password approval (see the separate mail you should receive about right now), this userid will be the one that you can use to upload your work or edit your credentials in the PAUSE database. This is what we have stored in the database now: Name: Damien O'Halloran email: CENSORED homepage: www.ohalloranlab.net enteredby: David Golden Please note that your email address is exposed in various listings and database dumps. You can register with both a public and a secret email if you want to protect yourself from SPAM. If you want to do this, please visit https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=edit_cred or http://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=edit_cred If you need any further information, please visit $CPAN/modules/04pause.html. If this doesn't answer your questions, contact modules@perl.org. Before uploading your first module, we strongly encourage you to discuss your module idea on PrePAN at http://prepan.org/ to get feedback from experienced Perl developers. Thank you for your prospective contributions, The Pause Team
Re: PAUSE permissions conflict with your sys::output module
Hey Neil! Feel free to delete this package, I doubt anyone is using it :) \-- [ Ask Solem - github.com/ask | twitter.com/asksol ] On Nov 20 2016, at 7:53 am, Neil Bowers wrote: > Hi Ask, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m emailing you because I’m working on resolving conflicts caused by PAUSE now considering package names case insensitively. This has left us with some situations where two or more people are owners of namespaces previously considered distinct, and now considered the same. > > > > You have ownership of the sys::output module, which is part of your “sys” distribution, version 0.2 of which is on CPAN. > > > > This now conflicts with the Sys::OutPut module, owned by AKSTE, and part of the Sys-OutPut distribution. > > > > There are a number of options for resolving this conflict, including: > > * Rename your module to a name not currently in use, and release a new version of your distribution. We’d then be able to drop your permissions on “sys::output”. > * If you’re not interested in this module (last released in 2008), we could just delete the distribution from CPAN entirely, and drop all associated permissions. If you’re not really doing Perl these days (Python now?), then I can do these steps for you. > > > > Please let me know your preferred way to fix this. > > > > PAUSE doesn’t let situations like this occur any more — I’m working through the existing cases. > > > > Cheers, > > Neil > >
