A followup to the updates from last sunday to CPAN. Since earlier today we updated again and:
Enjoy!
If you run a CPAN mirror, please subscribe to the announcements-only cpan-mirrors mailing list by emailing cpan-mirrors-subscribe at perl.org.
From a posting just made there (first in ~7 years):
If you are currently mirroring from rsync.nic.funet.fi or (in particular) from ftp.funet.fi, please change your mirror source to be rsync://cpan-rsync.perl.org/CPAN/ -- let us know at cpan@perl.org when you've changed the mirror source so we can update the MIRRORED.BY file.
Other related news: cpan-rsync.perl.org will soon be a "distributed tier 1 mirror" — and we need tier 1 rsync mirrors! Rather than use plain rsync, we'll use our new "instant mirroring" system that allows a mirror to be up-to-date within 30 seconds of a file being uploaded to PAUSE with very little overhead.
If you want to help be a tier 1 mirror, please see the wiki page on the "instant mirroring" test: https://github.com/perlorg/cpanorg/wiki/Instant-update-mirroring — send a mail to cpan@perl.org to get an rsync username/password for the "tier 0 master mirror" if you are going to setup a tier 1 rsync mirror.
And just to be clear: If you are mirroring from anywhere else than FUnet, you can just keep your current mirroring arrangement in place.
Planet Perl is going dormant. This will be the last post there for a while.
Why? There are better ways to get your Perl blog fix these days.
You might enjoy some of the following:
Will Planet Perl awaken again in the future? It might! The universe is a big place, filled with interesting places, people and things. You never know what might happen, so keep your towel handy.
CPAN has gotten its first real update in a while tonight; the content is from the cpanorg git repository.
We tried to get the FAQ cleaned up a bit (though there's plenty of work left) and Leo Lapworth pretty heroically also did a first pass on cleaning up the ports page.
You might also notice a search box for search.cpan.org which we find appropriate, a list of recently uploaded modules on the homepage and a new page on how to mirror CPAN.
If you read the latter page, you'll see that the master mirror is now cpan-rsync.perl.org::CPAN (rsync only). In the coming weeks we'll work on encouraging the CPAN mirrors to switch to mirror from here to ease the load on FUnet, the sponsor of the master mirror for the last 15 years.
Work is also coming along well on the instant update mirroring system.
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We will never-ever-ever ask for your password via email.
Our friends at pobox.com have produced a great summary of phishing.
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