Please Give me Comaint on https://metacpan.org/release/gettext

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Kim!

I'd like to comaintain this CPAN distribution of yours -
https://metacpan.org/release/gettext , which has been suffering from
accumulating test failures and bug reports, and other bitrot , and did not have
a release since 2005.

My CPAN username is "SHLOMIF" and you can find my active MetaCPAN page here:

* https://metacpan.org/author/SHLOMIF 

While I'm in the neighbourhood, I'd like to ask whether you'll agree to change
the licence of "gettext" to a better one such as the Artistic 2.0 licence or to
the MIT/X11 licence. See:

http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/#which-licence-same-as-perl

If I don't receive a reply in a few weeks, I'd like to ask the CPAN admins to
give me a COMAINT bit for it.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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Re: Please Give me Comaint on https://metacpan.org/release/gettext

[Kim Vandry]

On 2015-09-18 05:14, Shlomi Fish wrote:

Hi Kim!

I'd like to comaintain this CPAN distribution of yours -
https://metacpan.org/release/gettext , which has been suffering from
accumulating test failures and bug reports, and other bitrot , and did not have
a release since 2005.


Hi Shlomi,

Thank you for contacting me.

I apologize for the extremely long period of neglect. Actually I don't 
use Perl anymore and have not looked at this module in years. Moreover, 
the RT ticket queue for thsi module appears to be owned by someone else, 
so I did not get any notification when issues began accumulating.


For starters, I have created a public git repo for this module, and 
back-imported all of the past versions:


https://github.com/vandry/Perl-Locale-gettext

Next, I knocked off a few of the easy bugs and created a new release:

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PV/PVANDRY/gettext-1.06.tar.gz

Some of the remaining bug reports are also straightforward but will 
require a little bit more time than I have today or over the upcoming 
weekend to conscientiously fix. Others are things like build problems 
under operating systems I don't have and can't test for, or else 
possibly unreproducible or obsolete. In all honesty, again since I don't 
really code in Perl anymore, I'm not likely to work on those.


You are welcome to comaintain this module or even take it over. How do I 
set that up?



While I'm in the neighbourhood, I'd like to ask whether you'll agree to change
the licence of "gettext" to a better one such as the Artistic 2.0 licence or to
the MIT/X11 licence. See:

http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/#which-licence-same-as-perl


I see. I'm sure writing "same as Perl" for the license must have been 
recommended by somebody at some time or else I probably would not have 
done it. Obviously it was a long time ago. I am no legal or licensing 
expert. I have no idea what license would be best.


Regards,

Kim Vandry
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Re: Please Give me Comaint on https://metacpan.org/release/gettext

[Shawn H Corey]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:14:23 +0300
Shlomi Fish  wrote:

> While I'm in the neighbourhood, I'd like to ask whether you'll agree
> to change the licence of "gettext" to a better one such as the
> Artistic 2.0 licence or to the MIT/X11 licence. See:


Isn't gettext part of GNU? https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

It may be difficult to change its license.


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Shawn

Re: Please Give me Comaint on https://metacpan.org/release/gettext

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Shawn,

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:41:57 -0400
Shawn H Corey  wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:14:23 +0300
> Shlomi Fish  wrote:
> 
> > While I'm in the neighbourhood, I'd like to ask whether you'll agree
> > to change the licence of "gettext" to a better one such as the
> > Artistic 2.0 licence or to the MIT/X11 licence. See:
> 
> 
> Isn't gettext part of GNU? https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
> 
> It may be difficult to change its license.

Sorry for being unclear, but I did not mean "GNU gettext", but rather the
"gettext" CPAN distribution - https://metacpan.org/release/gettext . According
to the README of the latter (see
https://metacpan.org/source/PVANDRY/gettext-1.05/README ):

«
Locale::gettext is Copyright 1996..2005 by Phillip Vandry
. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you may distribute under the terms
of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as
specified in the Perl README file.
»

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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