XML::Grammar::Vered is not indexed in MetaCPAN (it appears fine in search.cpan.org)

[shlomif]

Hi all.

These searches on MetaCPAN return no results: https://metacpan.org/search?q=xml%3A%3Agrammar%3A%3Avered , https://metacpan.org/search?q=vered , and XML::Grammar::Vered does not appear here - https://metacpan.org/author/SHLOMIF . But it is present in https://metacpan.org/author/SHLOMIF and on http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/XML-Grammar-Vered-0.0.7/ .

Why is this the case? Can you look into fixing that?

Best regards,

— Shlomi Fish

[oalders]

Hi Shlomi,

The indexer doesn't like it. :) Can you check your Pod encoding directives?

metacpan@bm-n2:~/api.metacpan.org$ ./bin/metacpan release --latest http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-Grammar-Vered-0.0.7.tar.gz
2014/02/02 15:57:55 I release: Downloading http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-Grammar-Vered-0.0.7.tar.gz
2014/02/02 15:58:01 I release: Processing /home/metacpan/api.metacpan.org/bin/../var/tmp/http/authors/id/S/SH/SHLOMIF/XML-Grammar-Vered-0.0.7.tar.gz
2014/02/02 15:58:02 F release: Nested processed encoding. at /usr/local/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.2/lib/site_perl/5.16.2/Pod/Simple/BlackBox.pm line 380.

[shlomif]

Hi @oalders ,

OK, fixed it now. It was a Pod::Weaver SNAFU. Is there any way to get a report when metacpan fails to process an upload for some reason? Moreover, the POD validity tests (as part of «dzil test --all») passed here fine. Which version of Pod::Simple / Pod::Simple::BlackBox are you using?

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

[oalders]

Hi @shlomif,

olaf@bm-n2:~$ mversion Pod::Simple
3.28
olaf@bm-n2:~$ mversion Pod::Simple::BlackBox
3.28

There is no way to get a report presently, but you could add it to the wishlist: https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki/Wishlist It's something that wouldn't take a lot of effort and would probably save a lot of bug reports in cases like this, so I think it's a very good idea.

Best,

Olaf

[shlomif]

@oalders : thanks for the reply. These are the same versions of Pod::Simple that I have, so it's strange, that I didn't detect it. Anyway, I am going to add it to the wishlist now.

Note however, that one problem was that XML::Grammar::Vered completely disappeared from MetaCPAN due to the problematic upload, even though there were still earlier uploads in BackPAN and possibly in CPAN as well. Are all of them faulty?

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

[karenetheridge]

Why is the pod being parsed at all, since there is a 'provides' field in META.yml that should be treated as canonical?

[oalders]

@karenetheridge the Pod is being parsed as part of the indexing process (getting the documents into the API).

[oalders]

@shlomif We'd need to look further, but it may be that since the indexing was not complete, any previous releases were no longer listed as "latest". Only latest releases show up in a search. If the latest release is broken in some way, showing the previous release as "latest" isn't really correct. However, not having anything appear in the search is kind of a bad solution too.

[shlomif]

@oalders : OK, thank you for the heads up.