Hi Dr. Conway! I'm CCing this message to module-authors@perl.org, to hear what people think and to encourage other authors to consider it.
You have quite a few distributions on the CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/ Now, the problem is that many of them (naturally) have bugs and several have pending patches on the Request Tracker. I myself have a patch for a small annoyance in "NEXT" (which is part of core), and a fellow Israel.PMer said he encountered a bug in "Toolkit", and recently a discussion about Boston.pm talked about Parse::RecDescent's memory scalability problems. Now, Adam Kennedy recently made an interesting step of making commit access to a Subversion repository with the source code for most of his modules to anyone with a valid PAUSE login: http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/29327 My suggestion is for you to do something similar. What do you think? Is there any reason for you not to do so? ---------- As for the disqualifier disqualifying based on his own fault[1]: I'm not aware of any outstanding bugs in any of my CPAN modules except for SVN::Pusher. I also can usually commmit patches that get sent to me during the next weekend or sooner. (With some constraints due to my new full-time job and the fact I'm organising the August Penguin 5 community FOSS conference in Israel). Nevertheless most of my CPAN modules are available in this Subversion repository: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/web-cpan/ (Most of the others are available in other public Subversion repositories). I'll gladly give Subversion access through the Berlios system if people will register an account on Berlios, and send me one patch. Following Audrey Tang's lead, I will make them committers so they can commit there themselves. Naturally, Alias may agree that I move my modules to his repository instead, which will open it for contributions by any PAUSE author. I'll gladly do that, at least for some of my modules. Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - It really sounds better in Hebrew: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hebraic_proverbs#.D7.94 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
