Marvin Humphrey wrote on 3/12/10 12:16 PM: > Under the proposed policy, we privilege and reward our most active users and > contributors. However, we don't completely screw over people who were once > active but have since become inactive. They are required to make a one-time > sweep through their code to use the spun-off stable branch. > > This way, projects like MojoMojo and Socialtext -- which depend on KinoSearch > but may not control exactly when Perl modules get upgraded on a machine > running their software -- will be able to switch to a stable branch like > KinoSearch1 and avoid breakage.
I agree on both those major points (reward activity, do no harm to legacy users), and I guess I don't really have a strong opinion on the specific implementation. Separate namespaces for stable, older releases seems like a decent workaround for the limitations in how Perl/CPAN manage (or don't manage) versioning. -- Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [email protected]
