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From:
Rene Schickbauer
Date:
March 31, 2010 03:37
Subject:
Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
Message ID:
4BB313FD.5080907@gmail.com
David Nicol wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Elaine Ashton <eashton@mac.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Randy Kobes wrote:
>>
>>> Has some sort of disk quota system for CPAN author accounts ever been considered?
>> Not specifically, no, at least not that I'm aware of. That would have to be implemented on PAUSE and quotas frequently end up not solving the real problem and create a headache both for the sysadmin and the users.
> 
> new proposal: Make modules "pay rent" in order to remain on a mirror.
> Rent could be in the form of actual user interest, or good reviews.

Hmm, this can *only* work as long as that model is not applied to the 
main server: Just because a module is seldomly used doesn't 
automatically mean it is not vital to *someone*.

Modules that might fit into this category are many Acme modules. For 
example, i use Acme::Don't sometimes, cause it's better better for 
temporarly commenting out code sections than "if(0)"....

LG
Rene

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