Patrick Mulvany wrote:
Subject Clone 0.13 cuases Segfault
Created Thu Mar 20 04:40:43 2003
Updated Sun Sep 7 02:33:41 2003
Got fixed in the end but ended up replacing the module with a equivilent (storable).
Gook luck
Paddy
There's more than one way to do it. Some of them work
What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? I've
tried to contact the author of Data::Compare twice now to report bugs,
with no response in nearly a month. Should I just upload a new version
to CPAN and take over maintenance?
--
David Cantrell | Reality Engineer
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:56:56AM +0100, Nick Cleaton wrote:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:45:13AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors?
I've found rt.cpan.org very handy for that. One author failed to fix
security problems
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:09:16AM +0100, Patrick Mulvany wrote:
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2264
Subject Clone 0.13 cuases Segfault
Created Thu Mar 20 04:40:43 2003
Updated Sun Sep 7 02:33:41 2003
Got fixed in the end but ended up replacing the module with a
Eric Raymond talks about the etiquette of open source software
ownership in his article Homesteading the Noosphere (a chapter from
his book The Cathedral and the Bazaar:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/homesteading/
I'll quote to save you the trouble of looking:
: There are,
On 25 Sep 2003, at 10:45, David Cantrell wrote:
What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors?
I've
tried to contact the author of Data::Compare twice now to report bugs,
with no response in nearly a month. Should I just upload a new version
to CPAN and take over
David Cantrell wrote:
I'll do the RT dance and give him a few days to respond. Does RT email
the original author, or does it rely on authors regularly checking it?
Cos I certainly don't check for RT tickets on my modules.
Hello, David.
As a RT admin (I run one for my company), I can assure
Nick == Nick Cleaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nick I've found rt.cpan.org very handy for that. One author failed to fix
Nick security problems in response to emails for over a year, but had a new
Nick version up within a couple of days being RTed about it.
I dealt recently with an author who
On 25 Sep 2003 at 7:56, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I dealt recently with an author who has only an autoresponder at his
PAUSE-registered email address, telling people to go to a web page to
get his *real* email address, hidden as an image.
Funny, I just got back from reading
