Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: module-authors@perl.org; Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:50:47 AM Subject: Re: Give up your modules! Is there software that needs to be written? I could

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Johan Vromans
Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: isn't the responsible thing to find a way to get those bug fixes out there? First of all, one needs to know that there are bugs. Currently, only bugs that get reported via RT are automatically transmitted to the author. That's good. But failed CPAN tests are not

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Quoting Ovid: Nothing wrong with a good-old-fashion hostile fork now and again :) But hopefully we can avoid that. I'd almost be inclined to have takeovers than forks, but I suspect I'll be universally shouted down over that one. If module authors are unwilling to fix bugs in critical

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 8/15/06, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ovid: Said in another way, if you feel that there is a number of modules that need a new maintainer while bug are piling up, it's usually not because the author doesn't want to give the co-maintenance, but because nobody

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 8/15/06, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: module-authors@perl.org; Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:50:47 AM Subject: Re: Give up your modules! Is there

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Isn't CPANTS down indefinitely? I guess such thing should be part of CPANTS. Gabor

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess such thing should be part of CPANTS. ++ -- Buy the book -- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 8/15/06, Jonathan Rockway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't CPANTS down indefinitely? It alive and kicking: http://cpants.perl.org/ and I think Thomas Klausner would be glad to see more people hacking on it. Gabor

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-15 Thread David Nicol
On 8/14/06, James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the subsequent discussion, people suggested that we need the following: 1. Place for current module authors/maintainers who wish to transfer maintenance of certain modules to so indicate. 2. Place for people who are willing to take over