...bump...

Releasing another PDL developers release on the way to PDL-2.008.
Still need help from PAUSE admins to make me a co-maintainer on
PDL::Slatec.

Thanks,
Chris Marshall (PDL-2.008 Release Manager)

On 1/12/15, David Golden <x...@xdg.me> wrote:
> It's sort of secret knowledge among Perl toolchain maintainers.
> "x_authority" is a custom CPAN META key, but PAUSE now respects it (and has
> for a couple years, I think).
>
> Google found this blog post about it:
> https://jawnsy.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/what-is-x_authority/
>
> And I opened a ticket about it, too:
> https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/140
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tip, David.  The current PDL permissions has been around
>> for a long time (and seemed good at the time).  It would be nice to have
>> this cleaned up and made more sane.  Do you have some refs/docs for this
>> including which versions of perl might be supported...
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:37 AM, David Golden <x...@xdg.me> wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, a strategy that works well for bigger team projects is to assign
>>> primary permissions to one ID, and then add an "x_authority" field to
>>> META.json like "cpan:YOURIDHERE".  When PAUSE sees that field, it makes
>>> any
>>> *new* modules get primary permissions assigned to that ID and existing
>>> comaintainers get added as comaintainers of the new module.  It helps
>>> avoid
>>> fragmenting the primary ownership over time if different maintainers are
>>> involved in releasing.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Chris Marshall
>>> <devel.chm...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We're preparing for a PDL-2.008 release this month.  Our current
>>>> developers release shows that in assigning permissions for PDL release
>>>> to
>>>> me (the current PDL release manager) we missed a couple.  PDL::Slatec
>>>> is
>>>> owned by the pseudo author PERLDL.  Would one of the PAUSE admins
>>>> please
>>>> add me (CHM) as a co-maintainer of PDL::Slatec so that our releases are
>>>> no
>>>> longer UNAUTHORIZED?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC: @xdg
>

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