On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 15:36, Doug Bell <d...@preaction.me> wrote: > > > > > > I guess this "oh, this thing I haven't used in a while, is now > > completely broken" pattern is the price we'll be paying more of for > > modernity. > > No, it's the price we all pay for ignoring necessary maintenance of working > systems. I have been asking for more people to get involved in this side of > CPAN Testers since 2016. If you have an idea as to how to get people > involved, please do so. Otherwise, this kind of comment is not necessary or > helpful.
Sorry if you felt this was an insult specific to your work, it wasn't. It's an admission that, yes, lots of our important infrastructure are understaffed, and so the amount of labour available to do "the necessary work" is in a dire shortage. The places I have to manage perl stuff, is grossly understaffed too. Perhaps you see that situation getting better with Perl7 becoming a new thing on the horizon. But I really don't see it. Hence, I expect to see various services either fail for various reasons, or have its owners admit defeat/loss of interest and get turned off, like search.cpan.org did. None of this is great for anybody, and I don't know any feasible plans to solve this problem other than legalising and developing rapid cloning of human organisms. The best I can suggest, is you publish a "Help wanted" page somewhere with a list of tools you expect people to work with to maintain things, and lists of necessary/desired skills. Partly because people aren't likely to put their hand up until they have a realistic idea of what will be expected of them if they do. Doubly so if their time is already at a premium. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
