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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewpoint" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>PAUSE: The CPAN back stage entrance</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/pause/pause_favicon.jpg" type="image/jpeg"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pause/min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/pause/pause_2017.css"> </head> <body> <header> <div class="row"> <div class="col c8"> <h1 class="logo"><a href="authenquery"><img src="/pause/pause2.png" border="0" alt="PAUSE Logo" width="177" height="43" align="left"></a> The [Perl programming] Authors Upload Server</h1> </div> <div class="col c3"> </div> </div> </header> <div class="row"> <div class="col c2"> <nav> <div class="menu"> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery">Log in</a></p> <p class="menuheading"><b>Public menu</b></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=request_id">Request PAUSE account</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=mailpw">Forgot Password?</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about">About PAUSE</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_operating_model">PAUSE Operating Model</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_namingmodules">On The Naming of Modules</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_privacy_policy">PAUSE Privacy Policy</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_05news">PAUSE News</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_06history">PAUSE History</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04imprint">Imprint/Impressum</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=who_pumpkin">List of pumpkins</a></p> <p class="menuitem"><a class="menuitem" href="/pause/query?ACTION=who_admin">List of admins</a></p> </div> </nav> </div> <div class="col c9"> <form action="/pause/query?ACTION=menu" method="GET"> <input type="hidden" name="ACTION" value="menu"> <main> <h2 class="firstheader">Please choose an action from the menu.</h2> <p>The usermenu to the left shows all menus available to you, the table below shows descriptions for all menues available to anybody on PAUSE.</p> <table border="0" bgcolor="black" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr><td> <table bgcolor="white" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"> <tr class="alternate2"><th>Action</th><th>Group</th><th>Description</th></tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Request PAUSE account</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>Apply for a PAUSE account.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Forgot Password?</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>A passwordmailer that sends you a password that enables you to set a new password.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>About PAUSE</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>Same as modules/04pause.html on any CPAN server</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>PAUSE Operating Model</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>How the PAUSE admins run PAUSE</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>On The Naming of Modules</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>A couple of suggestions that hopefully get you on track</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>PAUSE Privacy Policy</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>Your rights as a user of PAUSE</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>PAUSE News</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>What's going on on PAUSE</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>PAUSE History</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>Old News</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Imprint/Impressum</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>N/A</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>List of pumpkins</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>A list, also available as YAML</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>List of admins</b></td> <td>public</td> <td>A list, also available as YAML</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Upload a file to CPAN</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>This is the heart of the <b>Upload Server</b>, the page most heavily used on PAUSE.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Show my files</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>find . -ls resemblance</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Repair a Pending Upload</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>When an upload you requested hangs for some reason, you can go here and edit the file to be uploaded.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Delete Files</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Schedule files for deletion. There is a delay until the deletion really happens. Until then you can also undelete files here.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>View Permissions</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Whose uploads of what are being indexed on PAUSE</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Transfer Primary Permissions</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Transfer distribution's primary maintainership status to somebody else (you become co-maintainer).</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Put Up My Distribution(s) For Adoption</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Give up distribution's primary maintainership status (abandoning it without transfering it to someone else).</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Add Comaintainers</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Make somebody else co-maintainer of a distribution.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Remove Comaintainers</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Remove a distribution's co-maintainer.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Give up co-maintainership status</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Give up distribution's co-maintainership status.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Change Permissions per module</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Enable other users to upload a module for any of your namespaces, manage your own permissions.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Force Reindexing</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Tell the indexer to index a file again (e.g. after a change in the perms table)</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Reset Version</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Overrule the record of the current version number of a module that the indexer uses and set it to 'undef'</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Tail Daemon Logfile</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>N/A</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Edit Account Info</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Edit your user name, your email addresses (both public and secret one), change the URL of your homepage.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Change Password</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>Change your password any time you want.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>About Logging Out</b></td> <td>user</td> <td>N/A</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Select Mailinglist/Action</b></td> <td>mlrepr</td> <td>Representatives of mailing lists have their special menu here.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Show Mailinglist Reps</b></td> <td>mlrepr</td> <td>Admins and the representatives themselves can lookup who is elected to be representative of a mailing list.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Add a User or Mailinglist</b></td> <td>admin</td> <td>Admins can add users or mailinglists.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Look up the forward email address</b></td> <td>admin</td> <td>Admins can look where email should go</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Manage a registration request (alpha)</b></td> <td>admin</td> <td>show/reject open registration requests</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate2"> <td><b>Edit a Mailinglist</b></td> <td>admin</td> <td>Admins and mailing list representatives can change the name, address and description of a mailing list.</td> </tr> <tr class="alternate1"> <td><b>Select User/Action</b></td> <td>admin</td> <td>Admins can access PAUSE as-if they were somebody else. Here they select a user/action pair.</td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </main> </form> </div> </div> </body> </html>