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
Re: PAUSE ID request (RWF; Richard Franks)
It is not entirely clear what, if anything, I am supposed to do in response to this message. The links appear to be for use by PAUSE maintainers, which is clearly not me! Dick Franks On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 at 21:43, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote: > > Request to register new user > > fullname: Richard Franks > userid: RWF > mail: CENSORED > homepage: > why: > > Maintenance of Net::DNS and Net::DNS::SEC, to both of which I have > contributed significantly over the past 15 years. Dealing with bug > reports in the new incarnation of RT really does require a PAUSE > account to be useful. Primary responsibility for releases will > remain with WILLEM amd NLNETLABS with whom I collaborate closely. > > > The following links are only valid for PAUSE maintainers: > > Registration form with editing capabilities: > > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_user&USERID=0351_1ac45b29af43c29c&SUBMIT_pause99_add_user_sub=1 > Immediate (one click) registration: > > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_user&USERID=0351_1ac45b29af43c29c&SUBMIT_pause99_add_user_Definitely=1
