On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 08:16 +0100, David Landgren wrote: > David Robins wrote: > > I've been sitting on a patch for Compress::Bzip2 for a while; I sent it to > > the > > maintainer (Marco Carnut, http://search.cpan.org/~kcarnut/) but he didn't > > reply. The patch: > > > > - fixes a bug with compressing small strings (the allocated buffer is too > > small) > > - adds error reporting and checking > > - adds tests > > - adds an OO streaming interface > > - adds a 'version' method to get the bzip2 library version > > - cleans up the documentation > > - looks for libbz2, rather than hard-coding the location > > > > I can send the patch to this list if desired (it's about 9k gzipped), or go > > ahead and upload a new version to CPAN, although I don't want to tread on > > anyone's toes. If Marco can't be found I'd be willing to take over > > maintainership. > > > > I was in the same position about two years ago. Never heard anything > back. I would recommend you take over maintenance of the module, I think > any toes to tread on have long since moved away. >
http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_maintain_module It would seem like the requirements have be met to hand over maintenance of this module to a new maintainer. If David's patch file has as much new functionality and fixes as described, and the author has really been absent for close to two years, I think it is time to ask for it. The question is, who controls this? I guess you would write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarko Hietaniemi). Lincoln
