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Needs a configurable option for timing out a test run

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If a test runs too long or goes into an infinite loop, there should be a way to automatically time out the test process. (As mentioned during PerlOasis 2012 talk...

I got a halt because of the failure to install a build requirement. This occurred installing TAP::Harness::Restricted on a vanilla 18.1. Needs further investigation -- this is a placeholder for...

This is a new ticket to track future issues relating to implemented the recommends/suggests support that had to be reverted. I've cherry picked the reverted commits into a branch and...

Consider quotas or limits on size of uploads

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There are some authors with enormous uploads. E.g. KAL with distributions topping 150 MB. While we do want to allow authors general freedom to upload what they want to their...

HTTP "fetch a file from a URL" needs to follow redirect

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Per email, I observed that PAUSE downloads a corrupt tarball from a Dropbox share URL. When testing that URL manually, a redirect is required to retrieve the tarball.

Lots of distributions rely on this now. We should add it to the "About PAUSE" pages.

Convert-Pluggable denied despite new first-come packages inside

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Per http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules/2014/03/msg89623.html, Convert-Pluggable uploads are getting denied for lack of dist name permissions, but it contains new packages of the correct name. The tarball is odd, with development files (e.g....

What to do about Unicode package names

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Perl 5.16 allows Unicode package names. While we can't have Unicode package names map to .pm files, an ASCII .pm file could contain Unicode "package NAME" statements. Should Unicode package...

I think this means any perl upload could stomp on the indexing of something on CPAN. Worth looking into

Warn about mismatched package and filename case

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In addition to case-folded indexing, finding "package Foo" in file "foo.pm" is probably an error and the user should be warned. We could do that always or only if no...