I made my first submission to CPAN last week. I submitted an update to a module, DBIx::Perform. It's sitting in my upload directory. How does it go from there to something that can be found in CPAN?

I have no feedback. I can think of lots of reasons why this module isn't in the search. Someone clue me in?

  1. Hasn't been long enough.
  2. CPAN doesn't index updates, or particular sorts of updates.
  3. CPAN doesn't work that way.
  4. The original module is by another author, and it requires his permission. Should've called it by a new name?
  5. It should've been submitted as tar.gz, not tar.bz2
  6. It's broken in some way. Test scripts do not run, or it's not formatted correctly, or something is missing, causing some automatic process to reject it.
There are a lot of instructions to follow. Too many, really. Can't this submission process be a little friendlier and clearer? I suppose I missed something.

In reply to what does it take to get a module accepted by CPAN? by bkchapin

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