On Nov 10, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
I hereby give modu...@perl.org permission to grant co-maintainership
to any of my modules, if the following conditions are met:
(1) I haven't released the module for a year or more
(2) There are outstanding issues on RT which need
On 11/10/2011 9:33 PM, David Nicol wrote:
I think this is not necessary at all. I think you have pretty much
described the current standards for granting takeover. I think the
barrier to making local forks is already very low and there is no
reason to switch the whole thing to Git.
Yeah,
On Nov 11, 2011, at 9:20 AM, John M. Gamble wrote:
I think the barrier to making local forks is already very low and there is no
reason to switch the whole thing to Git.
I usually use gitpan when I want to fork a module and can't find it's source
history. https://github.com/gitpan
On 2011-11-11, at 10:52, Todd Rinaldo to...@cpanel.net wrote:
On Nov 11, 2011, at 9:20 AM, John M. Gamble wrote:
I think the barrier to making local forks is already very low and there is
no reason to switch the whole thing to Git.
I usually use gitpan when I want to fork a module and
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:53:15AM -0500, Olaf Alders wrote:
Gitpan is no longer actively maintained AFAIK. See the issues list for how to
revive it.
And that's my cue to point out that while Gitpan isn't updated,
you can still use Git::CPAN::Patch, the module Gitpan is using under
On 2011-11-10, at 6:27 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
2. Maintainer wants help
The other case is when a maintainer is still around, but either doesn't want
to maintain a distribution anymore, or wouldn't mind a wee bit of help.
[...]
Maybe the solution to (1) and (2) lies with a site that
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:43 PM, yan...@babyl.dyndns.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:27:04PM +, Neil Bowers wrote:
Interesting thought. How about:
- if a distribution author appears to be inactive, then the author
would receive an email to their registered
CPAN
* yan...@babyl.dyndns.org yan...@babyl.dyndns.org [2011-11-11 22:30]:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:27:04PM +, Neil Bowers wrote:
I think this would still have to be a mechanism that an author has
to sign up to, rather than it automatically being applied.
Considering the nature of CPAN, I
