Normally, you get (three) mails from PAUSE and CPAN about the progress of your submission. As for DBIx::Perform, there already is such a module, so maybe the name clash is part of the problem. I normally use Module::Release to handle the nitty-gritty of running the tests, updating cvs and then uploading to PAUSE. Once the stuff is on PAUSE, it's a matter of minutes until it's moved into the CPAN and then it takes maybe a day until it shows up via CPAN.

So, likely, something went wrong with your upload. Uploading as .tar.gz is the common way as bzip2 is not available everywhere that Perl is, at least not by default. You should have given the module a new name or requested co-maintainership from the original author - that shouldn't prevent search.cpan.org from indexing your module, but it would have "UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE" in big red letters besides it. Other than that, the PAUSE/CPAN process is pretty lenient.

In reply to Re: what does it take to get a module accepted by CPAN? by Corion
in thread what does it take to get a module accepted by CPAN? by bkchapin

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