Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2025-04-05 Thread Alex Ma
Neil, following up on a request from last year - getting a whole new swarm of spam emails to c...@caida.org so I'd prefer to get this tied off properly rather than just deleting the alias and sending all bounces to /dev/null Can you give yourself permission to https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::

Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-24 Thread Alex Ma
Well Neil, that's not the best solution for me because the goal was to not dead-end someone who found our cpan email address on an official page (i.e, https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Graph), but I guess we'll just hope they get the message when the email gets ignored/rejected. > If you went w

Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-24 Thread Alex Ma
Yes Neil, you have my blessing to give yourself permissions to do a release which removes the email addresses.  It's waited 9 years, a few more weeks won't hurt, if you could add it to your low priority queue :) -Alex On 5/24/2024 9:48 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: Hi Alex, The documentation being

Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-24 Thread Alex Ma
Neil, Thank you for answering me! Let's put it up for adoption then, though I don't think this will be useful to anyone anylonger. We'd like the CONTACT and AUTHOR section to remove any official implication that we're supporting it anymore, even though I know our email address is embedded i

Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Alex, The documentation being displayed by MetaCPAN is pulled out of the documentation in the latest release, including the AUTHOR and CONTACT sections you referred to. So to change it, someone needs to do a release. It would be best if someone there could do a release, but if not, I could g

Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Alex, > Let's put it up for adoption then, though I don't think this will be useful > to anyone anylonger. Great. I've just transferred ownership to the special ADOPTME user, which flags it as being available for adoption. If you look at this page, you can see how MetaCPAN flags the adoptab

Re: Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Alex, I'm one of the PAUSE admins. > What is the procedure to get [Chart::Graph] unlisted so we can responsibly > shut down our c...@caida.org alias, as it was only used for listing at CPAN You have several options, the main ones being: 1. You can put the module up for adoption. This leaves

Request to remove Chart::Graph from cpan/metacpan

2024-05-22 Thread Alex Ma
CPAN, I am the Manager of Scientific Projects at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis and I'm writing to request that our CAIDA Perl module Chart::Graph be removed/unlisted from CPAN. https://metacpan.org/pod/Chart::Graph Chart::Graph - Perl extension for a front-end to gnuplot, XRT