On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:17:42AM +0100, Lyle wrote: > I've got a bit of frustration about a CPAN module I've patched. I've > emailed the author a couple of times, firstly with some major speed > enhancements as I found the module performed poorly with large > databases, second with some bug fixes to other parts of his code. I've > not heard anything back.
How long ago did you email him? Waiting a month at least would be reasonable, as people do crazy things like go on holiday. And have you tried contacting him via any other email addresses or places like perlmonks or rt.cpan? > I've emailed different authors similar things in the past and they've > usually been very grateful, or at least acknowledged me. I'm wondering > what steps I should take next... > Either:- > a) Leave well alone > b) Release my own version of the module > c) ??? Contact the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, tell them what you've done to try to contact the author, and ask them to twiddle the bits of CPAN that make you a co-maintainer so that you can upload your patched version. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla. _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
