Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-12 Thread Ben Deutsch 

Hello folks,


I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take
over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for
achieving that?


perldoc -q module

or

perldoc perlfaq7


I also recall a blog post by Brian D Foy on the subject of adoptation:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2013/02/mark-your-modules-as-adoptable-if-you-dont-want-them.html

Granted, that talks *mostly* about the current maintainer actively
passing control, but there's a passage:

[…] when someone comes to the PAUSE admins asking to take over a 
module, we can short circuit our normally conservative announce 
publicly and wait process to transfer it immediately.


Regards,
  Ben Deutsch

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis 
* Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net [2013-05-11 06:30]:
 I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take  over
 when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that?

http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_adopt_module

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-11 Thread James E Keenan 

On 5/11/13 12:26 AM, Matt Simerson wrote:


I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take  over when an 
author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that?



perldoc -q module

or

perldoc perlfaq7

Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-10 Thread Matt Simerson 

I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take  over when an 
author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that?

The module Net::SMTP::TLS was last released in 2006 by Alexander Westholm 
awesth...@verizon.net.   I attempted to contact Alex at that email but the 
message bounced.

I did find that Alexander has a GitHub account 
(https://github.com/alexwestholm), and I found a vanity email address within 
some published files (a...@alexwestholm.com), but alas, his domain expired and 
has been picked up by squatters.

I have also found Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained, which is almost exactly the 
same, save for the current author Fayland Lam having forked Net::SMTP::TLS and 
applied a number of contributed patches, and pushed out subsequent releases.  
Tonight, I forked his fork, applied a patch that corrects some SMTP behavior, 
and within hours he had merged the patch and published a new release. 

The old Net:SMTP::TLS is badly broken in several ways, so there's no good 
reason someone would prefer it. So I asked Fayland about it, and the thread is 
below. 

Thanks,
Matt

On May 10, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Fayland Lam fayl...@gmail.com wrote:

 No response. tried few times. but it was 2 years ago and 1 year ago I think.
 
 do you know him?
 
 Thanks
 
 On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net wrote:
 
 Did you attempt to contact Alexander?
 
 What was the result?
 
 Matt
 
 On May 10, 2013, at 8:11 PM, Fayland Lam fayl...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I tried to ask it in modules@perl twice but not got approved. so I do
 not have any other choice.
 
 Thanks.
 
 On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net wrote:
 
 Rather than having a separate fork, why not just take over maintenance of 
 Net::SMTP::TLS?  There seems to be a lot of CPAN now has maintainers 
 taking over for abandoned modules.
 
 Matt
 
 --
 Fayland Lam // http://www.fayland.org/