On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:42:58 +0300 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really don't want to do that, because it's not a real solution. > This mailing list, modules@perl.org and other forums are inundated > with such requests for gaining maintainership of authors who > disappeared. Now Damian did not disappear - he's still alive and > kicking - he just doesn't have the time to apply all patches or fix > all bugs. > > Once a FOSS project becomes popular and the author becomes busy, then > having only one person able to commit changes to such a project, > scales less and less. That's what version control and multiple > commiters (or alternatively or complementarily distributed version > control) is for. You can have co-maintainers in CPAN today that allows for multiple people to inject "real" versions into CPAN. But you have to be setup by the maintainer as a co-maintainer. But like with all FOSS projects, I think it should be up to the current maintainer ( or the CPAN gods if the maintainer disappears ) to grant that. Limiting commits to just people with PAUSE logins would probably not cause toooooo many problems... but the chance for abuse is still higher than I would like if the decision were up to me. As for your ideas on "vendor" tags, in-house CPAN sources, etc. I think can all be handled adequately today with CPAN::Mini and injecting your own modules. Obviously, you'd have to host these yourself and point your cpan shell at them, but it should work with todays tools. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiles.org ---------------------------------
