On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:42:05PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > 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...
>From my experiemces in working the perlbug queue, I've opened a few CPAN RT tickets for various core modules including patches for fixes. As of this moment, I've gotten two response back from module owners regarding the patches. The rest have languished. I'm not certain of what the proper solution should be. I can tell you, however, that what is happening now doesn't work. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
