On 24 September 2010 22:12, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Hi Fergal,
>
> On Friday 24 September 2010 23:00:53 Fergal Daly wrote:
>> For a long time now, I haven't had time to maintain this module. I
>> don't write any perl beyond 1-liners these days and work and family
>> take up most of my free time. When I do have some time, tweaking
>> software I don't use any more is not on high up the list.
>>
>> There are a couple of things that need doing for the docs and a couple
>> of small contributed patches to apply for new features but other than
>> that, it's fairly static and low maintenance. I believe there are
>> plenty of users but no real bug has been reported for a very long
>> time.
>>
>> The code itself is very modular, adding a new type of comparison is
>> just a matter of adding a class and tests so if someone wanted to
>> start actively developing new features it would be fairly easy.
>>
>
> I (= http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/ ) have some spare time to work on open-
> source software. I don't believe I've used Test-Deep before, but may have used
> it indirectly. In any case, I volunteer to maintain the module unless and
> until a more suitable developer is found.

Thanks. I was hoping to find an active user of the module since they
would have a bit of a head-start and motivation so I will leave the
door open a little longer before accepting your offer.

>> I have change history available as git or hg.
>>
>
> I think a Mercurial repository would be preferable because I think I like it
> better than git. Is there any difference between the two versions of the
> change history?

One is generated from the other, I don't recall which,

F

> While we discuss Test-Deep it seems to have a fairly large number of old
> versions on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Deep/ . Please consider
> trimming them so CPAN will take less space (they are always available on
> backpan).
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
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