On Feb 3, 2008 12:01 PM, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 2:14 PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:18:21PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > > Due to the fact I did not hear from the original author for 2 weeks,
> > > I'd like to ask the CPAN admins to give me ("SHLOMIF" on the CPAN) a
> > > co-maintainer status so I can upload my modifications (and future
> > > ones) as a new distribution.
> >
> > Some people go on holiday for more than 2 weeks.
> >
>
> And some people go on holiday for more than that. The question is: how
> long should we wait? There wasn't a new release of IO::Socket::INET6
> for over three years, and it has three pending bug reports. This
> probably indicates that the author is missing-in-action.Instead of this infighting why not just upload a development version of the module with something like this in the pod: "This is an unnofficial version of module X::Y::Z till the original module author reappears or till I get official maintainership of the the module." Send another nice(!) letter to the author making it clear that you will be happy if he continued the maintenance of the module or if he passed it to you. Then wait for another few weeks before asking the CPAN maintainers again. In the meantime both you and the users can already use your not official and development versions of the module. Gabor
