in reply to User Profile Element: CPAN author ID

One unfortunate thing is that we don't (yet?) validate what the user enters in this field. She could put someone else's author ID... or even just junk.

We do, however, at least, reject any value which isn't /^\w+$/.

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Re^2: User Profile Element: CPAN author ID
by hippo (Archbishop) on Apr 05, 2022 at 21:22 UTC

    While it would probably be far too much work for the small benefit, I'll just mention that MetaCPAN has a "Profiles" section for each user which allows them to specify their accounts at various other sites. One of these sites is PerlMonks so MetaCPAN may already be linking back to the monastery for some users. If you could verify that both ends of this connection say the same thing (eg. PerlMonks user Foo says in their profile that their PAUSE ID is BAR, and user BAR at MetaCPAN says their PerlMonks ID is Foo) then that should suffice for validation.

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      I'm not seeing any "profiles" section on metacpan. Can you please provide a link to it? tia.

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        E.g. on my user page, you can see 5 icons under PROFILES: GitHub, PerlMonks, Reddit, StackOverflow, and Twitter. In my computer browser, it's displayed on the left between WEBSITE and ACTIVITY.

        map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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