I'll throw in a free copy of PDL-2.008... If I can't get an admin fix, I would like to request ownership of PDL::Slatec from a non-responsive owner.
--Chris On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Chris Marshall <devel.chm...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...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 >
