>>>>> On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 07:39:08 +0300, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> said:
> Ahem. That's easier said than done. I had tried to register a few namespaces > in the past, but I didn't get any reply (inluding not an acknowledgement) and > none of my namespaces were registered. Yes, I know, we've often failed to confirm registrations. But if you have a specific reason why you *need* the registration, e.g. because you want to mark modules as abandoned, then please write to modu...@perl.org and say so, it won't be overheard. > At the moment on http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/ , I only have two > registered namespaces and they are both of (pretty early) modules > that I adopted and maintain. Eventually, I've given up on > registering namespaces, because the implicit CPAN namespace > ownership still gives me enough protection from abuse as long as > I've originated the module[Protect]. Of course. The automatic "first-come" registration is the preferred way of letting the system work without manual intervention. I even started once to turn the "first-come" registration into a full automatic registration but it didn't work as I wanted and then I lost track on that try. > I think that there should be a way to indicate that a module is up-for- > adoption using, say, META.yml. One option would be to use one of the keywords > in the keywords key: > http://perl.net.au/wiki/Finding_a_Module_on_CPAN/Definitive_Tags Fine by me, as long as the information generated is maintained and converging. > We can say that if one of the keywords/tags is "adoptme" , then we should > indicate that, and I'm all for introducing integration with more definitive > tags into search.cpan.org and kobesearch.cpan.org , etc. -- andreas
