while I understand your, even if shortly expressed, sentiments and even more marto's ones, please remeber what CPAN stands for: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Not Exclusive nor Elitarian but Comprehensive.

We are talking about our dear brother perlancar and yes it is the top uploader ever at CPAN with 2083 distributions and he is a good programmer. Ok: a bit exaggerated on the volume of his uploads but CPAN is a vast world and he probably has some tricky Risk like objective to occupy the whole world ;)

I'm with marto about the possibility to leave out of CPAN some personal project, since cpan clients can download from git online repositories, but this is a matter of taste or social behaviour, not a rule. This happens with the meaningfulness of namespaces too.

And as ever happens the river is much smaller than the sea of thousands of modules newer, older and leftover. But no one is saying what is good to fit CPAN or not.

This is the point: freedom always leads to some chaos. Here at perlmonks is the same but I definitely like it.

The CPAN infrastructure has a cost to host all its mirrors, for the bandwidth and storage, but we are really caring of 14.58Kb of the above mentioned distribution? I'd better point the attention on the CPAN search functionalities. About the river analogy the River stage rank is somehow a useful metric to judge a distribution, or, better, to know the possibility such distro will be updated on time.

Before uploading advice is good, but it is an advice not a costraint. The document mentions prepan but it is not the real predigestion of CPAN, it is a polite thing to do before uploading, not a constraint.

We dont like loud people, but we want a law to measure decibels emitted by people? We want a filter in front of CPAN to judge incoming distributions? We need a Quality Perl Archive Network (a lot of work to do)? I vote no.

Better the chaos of freedom.

L*