Hi David and all, > David Robins wrote: > > I've been sitting on a patch for Compress::Bzip2 for a while; > I sent it to the maintainer (Marco Carnut, > http://search.cpan.org/~kcarnut/) but he didn't reply. The patch:
Well, something seems to have went wrong, this seems to be the first email I got from you. Perhaps my spam filters were too agressive and ate your first message? I'll check this anyway. I would be interested to pass the Compress:Bzip2 module maintenace to anyone else more capable of doing it. As a matter of fact, Arjen Laarhoven mailed me about a month ago (see quote below) asking more or less the same thing. In any event, I'd love to get the patches and I'd be glad to help in any way I can. --Marco "Kiko" Carnut, CISSP --Tempest Security Technologies -- www.tempest.com.br > -----Original Message----- > From: Arjen Laarhoven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 8:12 PM > To: Marco Carnut > Subject: Re: Taking over maintainance of Compress::Bzip2 > > > Hi Marco, > > On Saturday, 06 November 2004 at 18:04, Marco Carnut wrote: > [...] > > > Would you be willing to sign over the maintainance of > Compress::Bzip2 > > > over to me so that I can eventually release an improved version? > > > > Yep -- I've picked up maintenance because I posted a simple update > > with the bz2_ prefixes and no one else seemed to be maintaining it. > > Then I moved on to other things. If you have new features, please > > by all means get it. How can I help? > > Ok, great! > > I'm working on a full interface to the library, modeled after the > Compress::Zlib module, while learning XS in the process. I expect to > have something halfway decent by the end of the month :-) > > I don't have a PAUSE ID yet, so I'll get one as soon as > possible. I'll > have to read up on the PAUSE documentation, but if I remember > correctly, > there is a mechanism to sign over the namespace to another > PAUSE ID, so > I don't expect problems there. > > I think the best course of action is for me to get a PAUSE ID, upload > the new version of the module, and then mail you so you can transfer > maintenance of the module over to me. Is this ok by you? > > Arjen > > -- > Arjen Laarhoven | > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Web: http://www.laarhoven.info | All that is gold > does not glitter... > >
