On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 05:31:00PM +0100, Michael Stevens wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 08:58:37AM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: > > People on this list might be interested in the extensions to > > Pod::Checker, some of which might be considered for pulling back into > > Pod::Checker. Attached is the current pod for podcheck.t > > I have things I'd like to change in Pod::Checker, but it seems to be > considered untouchable until the move to Pod::Simple.
It somewhat is, as a side effect of the attempt at having a consistent policy on what is upstream. Pod::Checker is part of the Pod-Parser distribution. The core's "who owns what" file, Porting/Maintainers.pl, says that Pod-Parser isn't maintained in core, and that upstream is MAREKR. MAREKR says that is (well), effectively dead. So the core policy works out as "send patches to MAREKR" and MAREKR's policy works out as "no thanks". Which isn't exactly ideal. At which point, the two obvious routes forward to resolve this are either a: move to maintaining Pod-Parser as part of the core or b: more to eliminating the need for Pod-Parser and the consensus seems to be that (b) is far less insane. I think that what's then gone "wrong" is that no-one wants to start on it, but given that it is the future, everyone thinks that doing anything in the direction of (a) is a waste of effort. Which stalls. Nicholas Clark
