may look old-fashioned compared with other portals including MetaCPAN or modules.perl6.org • Things around us has been changing PAUSE has been serving us well for a long time
single page • This may not have been a problem before • Too many checkboxes for some authors (150 authors have or had 50+ distributions, and 50+ authors have or had 100+ dists now)
(because a new contributor releases a new module without specifying x-authority, or because of partial transfer) • If you want to be a new contributor, you (usually) need to ask all of the owners for permission
To let someone grant permissions to someone else without giving up your owner rights • Permission manager needs to know new modules added by others, but how? • Discussed but not implemented yet
the PAUSE admins, but this process takes time • 25% of new users release their first distribution on the day of approval • David Golden introduced reCAPTCHA to eliminate this delay and admins' burden
account if you have uploaded something • You can empty most of your personal data by yourself • We started hiding data of deleted accounts (2019) • More to come
this • For ACT users to allow ACT to use their personal data • ... but almost everything is exposed via indices now • Providing official API would be nice • (Ab)use for user verification for RT/MetaCPAN?
efforts to make PAUSE indices case insensitive • Slaven Reziç fixed pause.cpan.org certification issue • Abandon primary permissions now means transfer to ADOPTME • Various test/logging improvements • Burp reports by Lee Johnson