Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module
On 12 Aug 2009, at 20:57, Jonathan Leto wrote: Howdy, This does not solve the problem of there not being an abandoned flag on CPAN, but perhaps listing it on http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org/wiki/Main_Page would be a better interim solution that just ignoring it. Cheers, Make an ABANDONED PAUSE user and give modules to it? Adrian -- http://quietstars.com - twitter.com/adrianh - delicious.com/adrianh
Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:57:01 -0700, Jonathan Leto jal...@gmail.com said: Howdy, This does not solve the problem of there not being an abandoned flag on CPAN There is an abandoned flag for Support Level on CPAN. It's underused but exactly there for this purpose. -- andreas
Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module
On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Adrian Howard wrote: Make an ABANDONED PAUSE user and give modules to it? I thought of that, but unless somehow the modules came out of PETDANCE into ABANDONED's directory, I still look like the owner. -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance
Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Andy Lestera...@petdance.com wrote: On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Adrian Howard wrote: Make an ABANDONED PAUSE user and give modules to it? I thought of that, but unless somehow the modules came out of PETDANCE into ABANDONED's directory, I still look like the owner. Rig some automation so ABANDONED verifies the legitimacy of the abandonor, then gets the latest version, bumps the version number, adds some THIS MODULE IS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION boilerplate, and republishes? -- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. - Jean-Michel Basquiat
Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module
Why not create an ABANDONED pause ID? Then you could just assign ownership to that. Er, or they'd have to make a release, wouldn't they? Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6 - Original Message From: Andy Lester a...@petdance.com To: Adrian Howard adri...@quietstars.com Cc: Jonathan Leto jal...@gmail.com; module-authors@perl.org Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 13:38:41 Subject: Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module On Aug 13, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Adrian Howard wrote: Make an ABANDONED PAUSE user and give modules to it? I thought of that, but unless somehow the modules came out of PETDANCE into ABANDONED's directory, I still look like the owner. -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance
I'd like a way to abandon a module
It would be swell if we could somehow note modules as being abandoned. For example, I'm a maintainer of WWW::Yahoo::Groups, because nobody took it from Iain Truskett. It doesn't install correctly because it's out of date and it's scraping Yahoo. Someone needs to update it if it's ever going to work again, but that's not going to be me. I am currently getting RT mail when people submit bugs, but I just delete them. It would be good if I didn't get the mail, and if people knew that there was no point in submitting bug reports anyway. This doesn't just apply to my case of having someone else's module. It makes sense for any module for which the maintainer no longer has any interest in keeping it up. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance
Re: I'd like a way to abandon a module
Howdy, This does not solve the problem of there not being an abandoned flag on CPAN, but perhaps listing it on http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org/wiki/Main_Page would be a better interim solution that just ignoring it. Cheers, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Andy Lestera...@petdance.com wrote: It would be swell if we could somehow note modules as being abandoned. For example, I'm a maintainer of WWW::Yahoo::Groups, because nobody took it from Iain Truskett. It doesn't install correctly because it's out of date and it's scraping Yahoo. Someone needs to update it if it's ever going to work again, but that's not going to be me. I am currently getting RT mail when people submit bugs, but I just delete them. It would be good if I didn't get the mail, and if people knew that there was no point in submitting bug reports anyway. This doesn't just apply to my case of having someone else's module. It makes sense for any module for which the maintainer no longer has any interest in keeping it up. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = a...@petdance.com = www.theworkinggeek.com = AIM:petdance -- Jonathan Leto jonat...@leto.net http://leto.net
