Re: Can not find my uploaded module

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Gagarin, > I have uploaded a perl module in CPAN, but i am not finding it when i am > giving my module name "Das.pm" in CPAN home page. > Kindly help me to find out my module. When searching for your module, you need to drop the ‘.pm’ suffix. Searching on MetaCPAN, I found your module:

Re: anyone want to adopt Test::Tester?

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Chad, > I just dug through my history and found this from when I adopted Test::Tester > from fegal. Is this sufficient to have the namespaces fully transferred to me > on cpan? Fergal’s email wasn’t sufficient on its own, as it wasn’t clear on what exactly he was happy to have happen. I ch

Re: Module adoption request for Tk::Zinc

2015-02-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Alex, > I would like to adopt the Tk::Zinc module. Could you please assign it to my > PAUSE ID ASB or make me co-maintainer? > > I contacted the author Patrick Lecoanet. He has access to the corresponding > Bitbucket repository where all the source code and documentation resides. > But he do

Re: request to take over PDL::Slatec

2015-02-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Chris, > The user PERLDL has been totally non-responsive in any attempts to update the > module permissions in order to resolve an UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE condition for > the upcoming PDL-2.008 release. Admin assistance would be greatly > appreciated. I have transferred ownership of the follo

Re: Upload failed. What can I do?

2015-02-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Reiner, > I tried to upload a distribution as user CHARTGRP. > > I received the following error message. > What do I to do to solve this problem. > I never got it. > Do I miss something in 'make dist'? The 'problem' is that PAUSE now considers package names case-insensitively when resolving

Re: Upload failed. What can I do?

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Reiner, I just wanted to send you an update on your permissions issue. >> I tried to upload a distribution as user CHARTGRP. >> >> [….] > > The 'problem' is that PAUSE now considers package names case-insensitively > when resolving permissions. > > The Finance::Quant module defines a packa

Re: [Fwd: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SCILLEY/POE/Component/IRC/Plugin/ Rictus-Bot-0.01.tar.gz]

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Scott, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. Sorry it took so long to reply to your message. > I created this Module Distro and uploaded to PAUSE, why is it stating that > I do not have permission. > > "This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the > package Rictus::Bot, whi

Re: Request for co-maintainer

2015-02-10 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Lonny, > I'm not sure if Paul, the author, has emailed in or not. I haven't heard from > him so I wanted to email in and see what the status of things are. I did send > the author an email, but he didn't get back to me. I'm also including a > forward of my message to him. I contacted Paul,

Re: Permission fixes needed

2015-02-11 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Karen, > I just uploaded libwww-perl-6.09.tar.gz. Unfortunately, I received comaint > before the indexing rule was added that requires permission on the > module-from-distname -- so I am missing permissions on libwww::perl. Please > could this be added so I can get this upload indexed? > >

Ownership of Net::DHCP transferred to DJZORT

2015-02-11 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dean, I have transferred ownership of Net::DHCP to you, having checked that the previous owner (Stephan Hadinger) was still happy for this to happen. Sorry it’s taken us so long to get to this. And thank you to Stephan for the prompt reply to my query. Background for modules@perl.org

Re: Permissions change for Fh module

2015-02-12 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Lee, > CPAN ID: LEEJO > > The Fh module is currently first-come for LDS. It used to be embedded in the > CGI module, but is now in its own file. This causes permissions problems and > is marking my CGI releases as unauthorized. Please could you change the > permissions on Fh so i have co-ma

Re: Catmandu::Store::Elasticsearch naming troubles

2015-02-15 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Nicolas, > i seem to have got myself into an upper/lowercase mess. > I while ago we renamed Catmandu::Store::ElasticSearch (big S) to > Catmandu::Store::Elasticsearch (small s). This has led to all kinds of cpan > indexing troubles. In an effort to fix this i deleted all the > Catmandu::Store:

Ownership of the 'chart' namespace on CPAN

2015-02-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Hagen, I’m writing this email in my role as a PAUSE admin. Following on from my previous emails, I am going to give co-maint permissions for the ‘chart’ namespace to the CHARTGRP pause id, which will let them release the Chart distribution. For now we’ll let you keep the permission, but in

Re: Upload failed. What can I do?

2015-02-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Reiner, > I tried to upload a distribution as user CHARTGRP. > > I received the following error message. > What do I to do to solve this problem. > […] > > This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the > package Chart, which you do not have. I have just given you c

Re: Perl CPAN distribution 'Text-Balanced'

2015-03-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Steve, > I'm looking to get a co-maint bit for Text-Balanced since the owner > (DMANURA) has not responded to any requests for a long time now (see > emails below). I’ve given you co-maint on: Text::Balanced Text::Balanced::ErrorMsg Text::Balanced::Extractor > This mo

Re: Test::MockModule

2015-03-10 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Geoff and Simon, > I'm writing to request co-maint status on Test::MockModule, originally > written by Simon Flack (copied). > > I tracked down Simon, and asked if he could merge some bug fixes I've made on > the module, or potentially carry on the torch in his stead. He responded and > sai

Ownership of Term::EditLine

2015-03-12 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Graham, After checking with Ulrich, the previous owner, I have transferred ownership of Term::EditLine. Do you plan to deprecate Term::EditLine2, and eventually remove it from CPAN? Thanks to Ulrich for handing this over, and sorry it took so long to process your request[1]. Cheers, Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report DCOPPIT/Getargs-Long-1.1004.tar.gz

2015-03-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi David, > I took over maintenance of this module in 2004. In fact I've released a few > updates since then. However today I tried to upload a new version to CPAN and > it failed due to missing permissions. I can perhaps track down Raphael > Manfredi (RAM) to grant me permissions, but I'm hopi

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report DCOPPIT/Getargs-Long-1.1004.tar.gz

2015-03-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Raphael, > I confess I'm no longer playing with Perl, which I why I relinquished > maintenance of all my modules on CPAN. I'll be happy if you can > setup acess rights to whoever wants to take over so that the code can > be properly maintained for the community. Thank you for this. Most of yo

Co-maint on Win32API::ProcessStatus

2015-03-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Graham, I’ve given you co-maint on Win32API::ProcessStatus, as you requested back in September last year: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules/2014/09/msg91320.html I also tried 3 different email addresses fo

Re: RFC: Auto::Log - a new perl module to log messages easily by redirecting STDOUT to a file

2015-03-26 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Balaji, > I wanted your comments and some suggestions. I am planning on publishing a > Perl module that I have written and successfully used for some time now. I > hope it is useful to others as well. There are a number of places where you can get feedback on module ideas: http://prepan.org

Re: Requesting COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-CFB

2015-03-26 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Shlomi, > I would like to request COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-CFB by > https://metacpan.org/author/KJH . There hasn't been a release by KJH since > Feb, > 2011 (over 4 years ago). > > My plans for it are: > > 1. […good stuff, including a bug fix…] > 6. Ongoing maintenance.

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report UNCLEANDY/GPLVote-SignDoc-Client-0.8.tgz

2015-03-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Andrey, > I was request permission for GPLVote::SignDoc::Client match time. When I can > get this permission or failure cause? Have a read of this blog post from David Golden, which I’m pretty sure explains why you’re getting that error message. Basically with a dist called GPLVote-SignDoc-

Re: Adopting a module : Text::MacroScript

2015-04-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Paulo, > I would like to adopt the module Text::MacroScript and start maintaining it. > > My ID is https://metacpan.org/author/PSCUST > I have transferred ownership of Text::MacroScript to you, and dropped ADOPTME from it. Thanks for taking on this modul

Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread Neil Bowers
I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed that it should be removed from CPAN. I had a

Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread Neil Bowers
> I don't believe that any distribution should be moved from CPAN to backpan > without the consent of the author or maintainer unless he or she is dead. I agree. I’d thought I’d roughly said that in my blog post, but while the intention was there, the clarity wasn’t. I’ll update the post later.

CGI-Response scheduled for deletion

2015-05-01 Thread Neil Bowers
I have scheduled the following files for deletion from the account of use MGH (Marc Hedlund): CGI-Response-0.02.readme CGI-Response-0.02.tar.gz CGI-Response-0.021.readme CGI-Response-0.021.tar.gz CGI-Response-0.03.readme CGI-Response-0.03.tar.gz Th

Extraneous CPAN permissions

2015-05-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Nicholas, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I noticed that you have two distributions on CPAN, both of which contain one module / package each: AUBBC SF_form_secure But someone else noticed that you have ownership of a lot of other namespaces on CPAN: Captcha Se

Re: Extraneous CPAN permissions

2015-05-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Nicholas, > I do not care what you do. Ok. I am going to check each “extraneous” namespace one by one, and drop your ownership of them if I can see nothing on CPAN related to it. Thanks, Neil

Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-05-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi John, > This brought back some frustrated memories. I tried to take over Math::Brent, > for the purpose of upgrading the package and fixing an error. I managed to > locate John Williams, who was fine with it -- but who then couldn't grant me > co-maintenance because PAUSE didn't have him as

Ownership of Math::Brent, Math::Derivative, and Math::Fortran

2015-05-06 Thread Neil Bowers
I have transferred ownership of the following three modules to John Gamble (JGAMBLE): Math::Brent Math::Derivative Math::Fortran These were last released by John Williams (copied) in 1995. He no longer had ownership of these packages, but I checked that he was happy for

Module Des scheduled for deletion

2015-05-10 Thread Neil Bowers
I have just scheduled the following files for deletion from the account of Malcolm Beattie (MICB): Des-perl-a1.readme Des-perl-a1.tar.gz This was the Des module, which was released in August 1995. It hasn’t worked for a while, and the only bug listed against it was from 6 years

Removing SGMLS from CPAN

2015-05-10 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, In 72 hours I plan to schedule the deletion of the SGMLS distribution from CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/SGMLSpm This was last released by David Megginson (DMEGG) in December 1995 (ie nearly 20 years ago). It doesn’t install cleanly from CPAN, and there are other more recent S

Re: Failed to reset my CPAN account

2015-05-12 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dmitry, > Last week I tried to reset my CPAN account (DMOW) with > /pause/query?ACTION=mailpw. PAUSE said the token was in its way, but 25 hrs > after it did't arrive, Then I tried once again, that time I received the > message about "less than 6 hours", what was considerably inaccurate. A f

Re: Removing SGMLS from CPAN

2015-05-13 Thread Neil Bowers
> In 72 hours I plan to schedule the deletion of the SGMLS distribution from > CPAN: > > https://metacpan.org/release/SGMLSpm > > > This was last released by David Megginson (DMEGG) in December 1995 (ie nearly > 20 years ago). It doesn’t install cle

Re: I got only one e-mail from PAUSE!

2015-05-18 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Gabor, > as I recall I used to get two e-mails from PAUSE for every upload, but now I > got only one. > > I've uploaded https://metacpan.org/release/SZABGAB/Pod-Tree-1.17_01 > 2 hours ago and got only the first e-mail. I have not received the e-mail > about indexing. > > Is this because it

Re: Module XML::WBXML

2015-05-20 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Mikhail, You wrote: > […] I use your module XML::WBXML in my work. Unfortunately you didn't renew > the module for a long time and now it fails to install because of an error in > tests. > > I'd like to fix this error. But reports on this and other errors in the > module on rt.cpan.org stay

Re: Files of JUNIPER scheduled for deletion

2015-05-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Priyal, > I have scheduled my files for deletion, it got deleted but when I am > uploading other file with same name its showing: > > "Submitting query > Could not enter the URL into the database. Reason: > Duplicate entry 'J/JU/JUNIPER/Net-Netconf-1.00.tar.gz' for key 'PRIMARY' > This indicat

Re: Cannot register namespace for module

2015-05-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Oleg, > I finished my Perl module and want to upload it to the CPAN. As I know new > namespace need to be registered but I have no menu item 'register namespace' > in pause.perl.org. My PAUSE ID is MAILRU and package is Captcha::Nocaptcha - > API for russian captcha service Nocaptcha Mail.Ru

Re: Cannot register namespace for module

2015-05-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Oleg, I highlighted part of the response you got from PAUSE below. > After I uploaded module I received email with a failure (until the __END__): > > […] > > This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the > package Captcha::Nocaptcha, which you do not have. No modul

Scheduled for deletion: SGI::FM, SGI::GL, and SGI::SysCalls

2015-05-21 Thread Neil Bowers
I have scheduled the following files for deletion from CPAN, from the account of Amos Shapira (AMOSS): SGI-FM-0.1.readme SGI-FM-0.1.tar.gz SGI-GL-0.2.readme SGI-GL-0.2.tar.gz SGI-SysCalls-0.1.tar.gz This will remove the following three modules from CPAN:

Transferred ownership of Lingua::EN::Squeeze to NEILB

2015-05-22 Thread Neil Bowers
I have transferred ownership of module Lingua::EN::Squeeze from JARIAALTO to myself, NEILB. Jari, copied on this email, was happy for me to take over and do a release. Thank you Jari, Neil

Re: Module

2015-05-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dariya, > I have loaded archive with the module on pause.perl.org. Files in directory > authors/id/K/KI/KIRILLOVA. But my module has not appeared on cpan.org. I see one file in your directory: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/K/KI/KIRILLOVA/

Pod::POM co-maint?

2015-06-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Andy, Would you be happy to give me co-maint on Pod::POM? I don’t have any plans for it myself, but have someone who wanted to submit a PR to fix a bug. I noticed that Andrew Ford previously had co-maint, and did releases from 2009 to 2013, but his account is now in PAUSE custodial state. An

Re: Module Test::RedisServer

2015-06-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Sean, I’m writing this to you as a PAUSE admin, rather than as the PRC organiser :-) > I am writing about the module Test::RedisServer. I am participating in the > CPAN PR Challenge hosted by Neil Bowers and my assignment for May is > Test::RedisServer. […] > > I had sent

Re: Namespace for API Specification Modules

2015-06-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Aran, As an aside, the module-authors list (cc’d on this) is probably a better place to ask for feedback on namespace selection. Or prepan.org . > Hello, I'm working on a library for parsing RAML (http://raml.org/ > ) files and other tooling around it (s

Re: Pod::POM co-maint?

2015-06-06 Thread Neil Bowers
> > Would you be happy to give me co-maint on Pod::POM? > > Sure thing. You should now be co-maint. Thanks Andy! I’ll give myself co-maint on all the other modules in the distribution, rather than put you through that :-) Cheers, Neil

Re: cpan HTML::WikiConverter

2015-06-07 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Trey, > I’d like to patch the HTML::WikiConverter module. David Iberri the author is > no longer involved. I reached him via email (see below) he asked me to > request the CPAN/PAUSE folks (you hopefully) to assign me permissions to help > maintain the HTML::WikiConverter set of modules pl

Transferred ownership of String::Interpolate to NEILB

2015-06-07 Thread Neil Bowers
I have transferred ownership of String::Interpolate and its two cuckoo packages to myself (NEILB): String::Interpolate String::Interpolate::AsArray String::Interpolate::Func These were previously owned by ADOPTME, as they were created by Brian McCauley, who sadly recentl

Giving NEILB co-maint on Text::Diff

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Tomorrow I will be giving myself (NEILB) co-maint on Text::Diff and its sub-packages, so I can release some fixes. This is currently maintained by Curtis Poe (aka Ovid, copied on this email). I submitted a PR, and Curtis has said he’s happy for me to have co-maint and release my fixes. Neil

Re: Uploaded module has not been indexed

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Oleg, > I have uploaded my perl module about 3 weeks ago through this form - > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=add_uri > > FIle name is Captcha-NocaptchaMailru-v0.1.1.tar.gz > But it seems that it has not been indexed.

Re: Request to 'adopt' Apache::Htaccess

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Greg, > Can you give me co-maint for Apache::Htaccess please? This was most recently > released by brian d foy in January of 2015. > (http://search.cpan.org/~adoptme/Apache-Htaccess-1.5/ > ) > > brian posted it on CPAN as an Adoptable Mo

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report RJBS/constant-1.33.tar.gz

2015-06-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Rik, >> Status: Conflicting record found in index >> […]module : constant >> version: undef >> in file: constant-1.33/lib/constant.pm >> status : Indexing failed because of conflicting record for >> (Constant|0.01|G/GS/GSLONDON/Parse-Nibbler-0.23.tar.gz) vs >>

Made myself (NEILB) co-maint on Text::Diff and the Text::Diff::* packages

2015-06-14 Thread Neil Bowers
Following from my email last week, I have just made myself (NEILB) co-maint on the following packages, with OVID’s permission. Text::Diff Text::Diff::Base Text::Diff::Config Text::Diff::Table I’ve got a developer release on CPAN which I’m watching CPAN Testers for: http://ma

Re: request to take over modules owned by bhughes

2015-07-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Craig, > E-mail to b...@tgsmc.com bounces after multiple attempts and bhug...@cpan.org > seems to be forwarded to that. I posted to the vmsperl list last October, > where Brad Hughes was active 10+ years ago, inquiring whether anyone knew how > to contact him. I have received no replies.

Re: Uploading new Parse::CSV

2015-07-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Ken, > Anyway, I'd like to upload a new CPAN version of Parse::CSV, one of Adam's > creations, based on changes here: > > https://github.com/kenahoo/Perl-Parse-CSV/commits/master > > > I did write to him but haven't received a res

Re: HTTP::BrowserDetect

2015-07-27 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Bonnie, > I am trying to find out if there is any type of mailing list I can get > on that will alert me to when the HTTP::BrowserDetect perl module gets > updated? I am trying to keep a client's website updated, but I never > know when the module is updated. Gabor Szabo, who I’ve copied on th

Re: Pod::POM co-maint?

2015-08-02 Thread Neil Bowers
>>> Would you be happy to give me co-maint on Pod::POM? >> >> Sure thing. You should now be co-maint. > > Thanks Andy! > > I’ll give myself co-maint on all the other modules in the distribution, > rather than put you through that :-) Somewhat delayed, I’ve just given myself co-maint on the su

Re: [upl...@pause.perl.org: Failed: PAUSE indexer report KARASIK/App-PLab-1.00.tar.gz]

2015-08-13 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dmitry, > Can you possibly point me out on why the indexer thinks I don't have > permission > to App::PLab? There doesn't seem to be an existing module with that name on > CPAN. I'm confused. PAUSE now requires that distributions include a module with a name that matches the distribution. So

Transferred ownership of Devel::TraceUse to BOOK

2015-09-07 Thread Neil Bowers
I have transferred ownership of Devel::TraceUse to BOOK, and dropped CHROMATIC from the permissions entirely, following communication from chromatic. Neil

Re: Adoption request for Alien.pm, including approval by current owner

2015-09-10 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Graham, & Co., > I'm interested in adopting Alien.pm so that it can be updated to reflect > the current state of the art of Alien on CPAN. […] > My PAUSE id is PLICEASE. I am the release manager for Alien::Base and I > have also successfully adopted a number of CPAN modules, including > Test:

Re: Adoption request for Alien.pm, including approval by current owner

2015-09-12 Thread Neil Bowers
> I have transferred ownership to you (PLICEASE), and have given co-maint to > ETJ, JBERGER, and ZMUGHAL as well. > > Artur, please shout if you want to keep co-maint on Alien, and thank you for > passing the baton on. Following a tweet from Artur, I have dropped him (ABERGMAN) from the co-main

Re: How to get help with Flickr::Tools permissions

2015-09-17 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Louis, > I recently got co-maintainer from IAMCAL for Flickr::API. I then contacted > Nuno Nunes (CCed) who gave me first-comer for a number of Flickr::API::etc > modules. It is my intention to blend these together into a single > distribution. > > [don’t have ownership of Flickr::Tools, the m

Re: Reindex request for Net::AMQP-0.06

2015-09-17 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, > Apologies for the bother, but could we get Net::AMQP version 0.06 (~CHIPS) > reindexed on MetaCPAN. No new upload or anything, just looks like there may > have been a permissions issue. > > It seems like when v0.06 was uploaded to CPAN, ~CHIPS may not have had > authorization to upload N

Re: Forgot email for pause account

2015-09-17 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Kris, [I had email with Kris offline, to confirm it was the account holder] > I forgot email for pause account BIESZCZAD > This is possible to cancel this account or change password? I have set your email address to be the one you emailed from. Cheers, Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report BPRASAD/Amibroker-AFL-Tools-0.03.tar.gz

2015-09-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Babu, > Hi, I am getting this error while trying to upload this module > "Amibroker::AFL::Tools" to CPAN. > > "This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the > package Amibroker::AFL::Tools, which you do not have. No modules will be > indexed.” PAUSE now requires di

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report BPRASAD/Amibroker-AFL-Tools-0.03.tar.gz

2015-09-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Babu, > I realized missing module in my first package : Amibroker::AFL::Tools and > added it in version 0.02 and 0.03, > but still I am getting this error. > > Amibroker::AFL::Tools has only pod information and does not actually contain > any code. > So, is that a problem? Firstly, you forg

Re: Reindex request for Net::AMQP-0.06

2015-09-23 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Spikes, >>> Apologies for the bother, but could we get Net::AMQP version 0.06 (~CHIPS) >>> reindexed on MetaCPAN. No new upload or anything, just looks like there may >>> have been a permissions issue. >> You’re right, it looks like he has all relevant permissions. I’ve triggered >> a re-ind

Ownership of Net-AMQP packages transferred to TEAM

2015-09-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Tom, I’ve transferred ownership (first-come permission) for all the Net::AMQP packages in Net-AMQP to you. The distribution was originally released by Eric (EWATERS), who had first-come on two thirds of the packages, and then by Chip (CHIPS), who had ownership of the remaining packages. Eri

Re: Ownership of the 'chart' namespace on CPAN

2015-09-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Hagen, Just over six months ago I wrote to you about the chart/Chart namespace on CPAN: > I’m writing this email in my role as a PAUSE admin. > > Following on from my previous emails, I am going to give co-maint permissions > for the ‘chart’ namespace to the CHARTGRP pause id, which will let

Re: Question

2015-09-30 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Robert, > This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the > package LCP, which you do not have. No modules will be indexed. > […] > The following packages (grouped by status) have been found in the distro: […] > > module : LCP::Karkkainen […] > module : LCP::K

Noting desire to get co-maint / adopt Text::Table::Tiny

2015-10-05 Thread Neil Bowers
I’ve tried to get hold of Creighton Higgins, the author of Text::Table::Tiny a couple of times. His CPAN address (copied on this email) bounces, but without too much work I found a non-bouncing email address, which I’ve bcc’d on this email. I offered to take on maintenance so I can release my c

Re: Naming and ownership of HTML-Format

2015-10-12 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Nigel, > I took on maintainership of the HTML-Format distribution a few years back as > it was rotting and unloved. > > This is one of the modules where despite being named HTML-Format the base > module within it is HTML::Formatter, and a bug has been raised against it for > this:- > ht

Re: Preventing PAUSE from indexing certain packages in a distribution

2015-10-13 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Francisco, > Today I uploaded to PAUSE a distribution that contained at root level a > folder called ‘fakelibs’, which contained fake modules intended for testing. > PAUSE then tried to index them and I received a report informing that > ‘Some::Module’ (one of my fake modules) cannot be inde

Re: Please add new co-maintainer for PDF::Create

2015-10-15 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Gabor, > I am a co-maintainer of PDF::Create and the related modules: > > PDF::Create::Outline > PDF::Create::Page > PDF::Image::GIF > PDF::Image::JPEG > > and I'd like get Mohammad S AnwarPAUSEID: MANWAR to get co-maintainer > rights > on thee modules. As I cannot do that myself, please

Stateful::Tailer

2015-10-16 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Mikey, >I have a new module which I would like to post to cpan. It is >called Stateful::Tailer similar to File::Tailer. I felt it >appropriate to write a more light-weight object-oriented >replacement. It is working well for my organisation at the moment. Thanks for sharing you

Test::Strict on CPAN

2015-10-18 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Pierre, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. Gabor Szabo is a co-maintainer on your Test::Strict CPAN module, and has been doing releases since 2012. He would like to give co-maint to Mohammad Anwar (MANWAR), but he can’t as only the owner can. Would you be happy for me to transfer ownership of Tes

Re: Please add new co-maintainer for Test::Strict

2015-10-19 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Gabor, > I am a co-mainatainer of Test::Strict and I'd like get > Mohammad S AnwarPAUSEID: MANWAR to get co-maintainer rights > > on the module. As I cannot do that myself, please do it for me. Pierre, the original author of Test::Strict, was happy for you to take ownership of Test::Stri

Re: Contact to Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)

2015-10-23 Thread Neil Bowers
>> [want to contribute to >> Business::Tax::VAT::Validation, created by Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)]. > > This is a hilariously late reply to your list mail, but better late > them never - I found it while trying to contact Bernard to offer to > take over that module. > > I've managed to contact

Re: Permissions for WebService::SendGrid::Newsletter

2015-11-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Michal, > Please convert the permissions for WebService::SendGrid::Newsletter from > modulelist to first-come, so that I can then transfer the module to > another user account. Done! Cheers, Neil

Re: Noting desire to get co-maint / adopt Text::Table::Tiny

2015-11-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Can a PAUSE admin give me co-maint on Text::Table::Tiny please? One month ago I wrote: > I’ve tried to get hold of Creighton Higgins, the author of Text::Table::Tiny > a couple of times. His CPAN address (copied on this email) bounces, but > without too much work I found a non-bouncing email add

Re: Contact to Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)

2015-11-15 Thread Neil Bowers
In October I transferred ownership of Business::Tax::VAT::Validation from Bernard Nauwelaerts (BGPN) to David Precious (BIGPRESH). > Dave P showed me a copy of the email, so I’m happy to transfer ownership: > - Dave, you now have ownership of Business::Tax::VAT::Validation > - Bernard, you stil

Re: Top Level Namespace "Ginger"

2015-11-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi David, > I have uploaded the changed module to my pause account, but it says I do not > have permissions to the top level namespace. Could someone please give > permissions to my account so that I can make this change? > > "This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for

CPAN PRC: author survey [JAITKEN]

2015-12-07 Thread Neil Bowers
Dear JAITKEN, I'm giving a talk about the CPAN PR Challenge at the London Perl Workshop in December. As part of that I'll be including some statistics. One or more of your CPAN distributions were assigned in the challenge. You might not have been aware of that, or even of the challenge. Either wa

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report DDALLEN/Graph-Dijkstra-0.2.tar.gz

2015-12-14 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dewey, > How do I gain permission to create a new package in the "Graph::" namespace? > > Request permission to create a new package, Graph::Dijkstra, which implements > Dijkstra's shortest path algorithms efficiently in Perl (though it does use > an underlying xs module) that adds input / o

Re: Could you please delete JCDUQUE's Digest::SHA2 uploads from the CPAN?

2015-12-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Ævar, > I'm the current maintainer of Digest::SHA2. […] Below is an E-mail exchange > with the original maintainer (JCDUQUE) where he agrees that deleting > his uploaded versions is just fine. He's forgotten his PAUSE password > so he can't do it himself. > > If you could kindly delete the one

Re: Please give me COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/File-Remove

2016-01-10 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Shlomi, > I'd like to have a COMAINT bit (co-maintainer) on > https://metacpan.org/release/File-Remove , which today I've been bitten by > this > bug of it: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=90183 . File-Remove > had no release since 2012 and ADAMK, its most recent uploader, has n

Re: Request to adopt WWW::BashOrg

2016-02-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Peter, > http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/modules-for-adoption-bit-rot-thursday.html > > that the module WWW::BashOrg is up for adoption. This looks like a nice > project to get more familiar with CPAN therefore I would like to adopt. > > Is it possible to transfer it to my pau

Re: Would like to adopt WWW::GetPageTitle

2016-02-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Brian, > I would like to adopt WWW::GetPageTitle - my CPAN id is BDURHAM. I have transferred ownership of WWW::GetPageTitle to you, and dropped ZOFFIX entirely, as per his wishes. Thanks for adopting this. Cheers, Neil PS I’m not going to bother cc’ing Zoffix on all of these requests, as h

Re: Adoption of Acme::CPANAuthors::Canadian

2016-02-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Karen, > As per Zoffix's post and reply at > http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/modules-for-adoption-bit-rot-thursday.html > > , > I would like to request first-come permissions on > Ac

Re: Adopt WWW::ProxyChecker

2016-02-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Steve, > In addition to my email yesterday regarding adopting > Acme::CPANAuthors::Canadian and WWW::FreeProxyListsCom, I'd also like to > adopt WWW::ProxyChecker if possible. > > My PAUSE ID is STEVEB. I have transferred ownership of WWW::ProxyChecker, and dropped both ADOPTME and ZOFFIX

Re: Desire to adopt Acme::CPANAuthors::Canadian and WWW::FreeProxyListsCom

2016-02-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Steve, > Per the following blog post: > http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/modules-for-adoption-bit-rot-thursday.html > > , > I'm requesting to adopt these two modules. Karen Etheridge

Re: [rt.cpan.org #109494] old versions

2016-02-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Nat, > I apologize if you are not the right people for this question. A very > reasonable request has come my way to delete some long obsolete modules > created by a former colleague CCAVNOR. I took over the namespace, but I > don’t see the files in question. When you get permissions for a

Added NEILB as co-maint on Lingua::GL::Stemmer

2016-02-07 Thread Neil Bowers
XERN gave me co-maint on Lingua::PT::Stemmer, so I could do a release of Lingua-PT-Stemmer, but forgot that the dist also contains Lingua::GL::Stemmer. So I’ve just given myself co-maint, to save hassling XERN again (who I’ve copied on this email). Neil

Looking for Brent Powers / adoption of Memoize::ExpireLRU

2016-02-09 Thread Neil Bowers
I’ve tried contacting Brent Powers (BPOWERS) about getting co-maint or ownership of Memoize::ExpireLRU, but email to him bounces. I think I’ve found him on LinkedIn, and am waiting to see if he accepts my link request :-) In the meantime, this is the first stake in the ground — if I can’t track

Deleted old releases from CCAVNOR

2016-02-13 Thread Neil Bowers
After more communication with Christopher Cavnor (CCAVNOR), he gave his permission for me to delete his other old releases. Some of these were still being indexed, due to module (name) changes. I’ve schedule them for deletion, so they’ll be removed in 72 hours. Thanks to Christopher, and to Nat

Re: Net::SolarWinds::REST

2016-02-15 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, > I am trying to use the Name Space: Net::SolarWinds but I am getting indexing > permission errors. From what I can tell this name space is not in use? > > Is there anything wrong with using this name space? There’s nothing wrong with the namespace. I can see that your 0.08 upload has been

Scheduled distributions from JACKS for deletion

2016-02-16 Thread Neil Bowers
I have scheduled Jack Shirazi’s CPAN distributions for deletion, after discussing it with him and getting his agreement. These were all more than 20 years old, didn’t have any downstream dependents, and most of them hadn’t worked for a long time. I first considered this nearly a year ago (http:

Re: CPAN modules

2016-02-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, > Happy to have you take over CSS::Tiny, I haven't had a change to work on it > in ages. > There's an existing GitHub repo for the final state of the OpenRepository > stuff, you can go from. I’ve given co-maint on CSS::Tiny to CHORNY. Thanks to both of you. Neil

Desire to adopt module 'Slurp'

2016-02-25 Thread Neil Bowers
This is first notice that I’d like to get co-maint on the Slurp module, last released to CPAN in 2003 by Rob Casey (ROBAU). Rob’s CPAN email address bounces, as does the other email address listed in the Changes file. I’ve tried to connect to him on LinkedIn, but in case I don’t manage to get h

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