Steve Hay wrote: > Hence I was suggesting p5p people should ideally have co-maintainership > of these modules to keep them in sync. Clearly each author would have > to explicitly agree to this, but if they did then it could be better for > all: New Perl releases would contain all the latest bug fixes instead > of having to leave them out just because there is no new CPAN version, > and module authors would have some of their bugs fixed for them, freeing > up their precious spare time for enhancements and other pet ideas of > their own that they'd rather spend their time on.
I agree with that view. > Perhaps we could have a new CPAN author called p5p to allow this? There is already one : http://search.cpan.org/~p5p/ but I don't know who's behind it...