Or you could just fork the code and upload a new version of the rock and
use and promote that, instead of changing someone else's code, and then you
can avoid this whole mess. If the owner isn't updating an older rock, by
virtue of entropy (and perhaps statistics on how popular a rock has been
the last month) the new one will take over.
See: ruby gems, npm packages, Github repositories
On May 7, 2013 8:54 AM, "Philipp Janda" <siffie...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 07.05.2013 10:37 schröbte Thijs Schreijer:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Philipp Janda [mailto:siffie...@gmx.net]
> >> Sent: dinsdag 7 mei 2013 9:59
> >> To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] Hostile rockspec takeover
> >>
> >> It still depends on Hisham, as he has to known all maintainers for 500+
> >> rocks, so that he can accept updates from the right people and reject
> >> others.
> >
> > Hmm. Yep you're right. The next thing I can think of would be a website
> where users can upload their own rocks (like with moonscript). With some
> annual confirmation that rock owners still are active, if they don't
> respond, the rock automatically goes up for adoption.
>
> We could also take the latest rockspec upload into account, and there
> should be some form of email reminder too (first to the maintainer(s)
> directly, and later if necessary as a summary to one of the mailing lists).
>
> I would miss the friendly help on this mailing list, though, if there
> was something wrong with my rockspecs ...
>
> >>
> >> For the dependency issue I hope that we can find something faster ...
> >>
> >
> > I doubt it. People need to get a fair amount of time, returning from a
> long holiday a find all your code gone, that’s a bad thing.
>
> I agree (and apparently three weeks is not sufficient time, as I just
> received an answer from the original markdown.lua developer), but for
> the dependency issue, you would just have to replace ">= 5.1" with ">=
> 5.1, < 5.3" in those rockspecs that break for Lua 5.2. No code stealing
> necessary.
>
> Philipp
>
>
>
>
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