On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 05:31:11PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > (b) We could extend PAUSE's permission system distribution names as > well, so that distribution names would have primary/co-maint rights > just as packages do. This would not fix any existing duplicates, but > would prevent future infractions. It means changing a lot of PAUSE > code, but would allow RT, search sites and CPAN Testers (CT) to pretty > much remain as is.
This seems like the most sensible way to go. It fixes the problem in one place with no significant impact on anyone else. I imagine that because you've only just noticed this there aren't that many duplicates anyway, and I would expect at least some of those to be mistakes that people would be happy to have deleted. > (d) RT, search sites and CT stop using distribution name as a key and > revert either to package names or to distfile in some fashion. This > is not a trivial amount of code change and -- in the case of RT -- > might make RT much more complicated and less useful. RT is a commercial tool, and rt.cpan exists because Best Practical graciously let us use it for free. Let's not ask them to do any work, unless there's an actual bug in RT - which I don't think there is. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol. -- W C Fields
