Monday, April 28, 2008

Slow April Day

Twenty miles to the East, fires burn.



But here at perl.org headquarters, it's a slow day.



Not that we're not busy as usual, but today our primary webserver was running veeeeeeeeery veeeery slooooooooowww..



I think it's just one of those days.



Today's issues:



  1. full partition makes database unhappy


  2. effective DDOS attack by people misusing the ntp pool.  (No - you are NOT supposed to set your time via HTTP using our service.)


  3. (when I thought it was all done) someone in Australia tried to scrape a million messages off of the cpan-testers archive.  All at once.  (Blocked!)


But everything's back to fast and normal now.....



Thursday, April 17, 2008

Mailbag: Unified CPAN

Today's message came in to one of the CPAN support addresses.  We could tell him about Bundle::Everything (out of date as it may be), although I suspect he doesn't have a comfortable enough chair to read them all.

Hello dear Hack-o-holics !



Is this not possible ???
I want to download all available perl-modules in one bundle !?



It is crucial, to download every useful module separated.



One bundle and then I can read them in peace at home.



Thank you



Saturday, April 5, 2008

Related module links on search.cpan.org

Documentation pages on search.cpan.org now contain a list of related modules. For an example see LWP::UserAgent



This list is determined by data created by Perlmonks.org about which modules are discussed together.