Request: ability to get author id (PAUSE id) in /release metadata

[neilb]

The metadata section in the results from /release include an author entry, but that's the author string (as might appear in the AUTHOR section in pod, such as 'Neil Bowers neilb@cpan.org', unlike the author entry at the top level, or in /module, which is the PAUSE id of the author.

I'd like to use the metadata.author entry, but for my purposes I need the PAUSE id.

I don't think there's a way I could currently map the author string to a PAUSE id (eg by parsing out the email address and calling metacpan API with the email address), so is this a potential feature for the future? It would be very handy if you could provide pause_id or author_id in the metadata section.

Thanks,
Neil

[monken]

I think we shouldn't mess with the metadata content because it's what the dist provides and metacpan shouldn't alter any information in there.

You can search authors by email address: http://api.metacpan.org/author/_search?q=email:onken@netcubed.de

[neilb]

I discussed this with a few people on the metacpan IRC channel yesterday. Castaway pointed out http://www.cpan.org/modules/06perms.txt, which has the information i'm after.

You're right, this doesn't belong in metadata, but maybe a different section could be included, which holds maintainers, something like:

maintainers: {
    primary: "NEILB",
    comaint: [ "MST" ,"SOLVE"]
}

This would be empty where a module has no maintainers.

Thanks for the tip on searching by email.

[oalders]

The 06perms.txt data felt like something which could be included in /distribution

[neilb]

I'm assuming that if this is going to happen, it isn't going to happen for a while? I'm about to work on the tools I use to build my reviews, and process 06perms.txt myself. Would obviously be much easier if it was included in the information I'm already getting from MetaCPAN :-)

[ranguard]

Moved to wishlist: https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki

[oalders]

Have re-opened as I'm hoping to tackle this with @neilbowers tomorrow.

[rwstauner]

I still don't understand the original request.

Have fun!

[neilb]

@rwstauner, yeah I don't understand the original request either :-)

The good thing is, I've got a much better idea now of what I should have been asking!

[oalders]

The permissions work is in the following branch https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/tree/oalders/06perms

[haarg]

It isn't clear to me what this ticket is about. Possibly it should be closed and a new issue opened for the permissions API?

[oalders]

Yeah, I'm going to close this. I've opened a pull requestion for the 06perms branch so that I don't lose track of it. I think it's pretty close to being able to merge. Will rebase etc.