[smonff]

According to their about page, it is 5 years old.

We are a relatively young open source project. In November 2015, MetaCPAN will be 5 years old. It's old enough to have become an important and well utilized part of the Perl world, but it's also young enough to have lots of room to evolve. As you will see we have many ideas and encourage more suggestions.

[oalders]

Yep, that's correct. I still remember when I registered the name. It has grown far beyond anything I had imagined.

The whole CPAN ecosystem (CPAN, CPAN Testers, search.cpan.org, metacpan.org etc) involves a lot of people and a lot of resources. It's not just open source software -- it's open source "software as a service". So you get to push some code and also worry about uptime!

Lots of volunteers and more than a few sponsors make sure the ecosystem keeps on ticking. My thanks to all of them. :)