* On Sun, Feb 03 2008, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008 12:01 PM, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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."
Excellent idea. Another possibility is to release a subclass of the module that has your fixes in it. Then people can use IO::Socket::INET6::Shlomi, and forget about the brokenness in IO::Socket::INET6. When I::S::6 fixes the bug you can re-upload your module as a simple "package IO::Socket::INET6::Shlomi; use base "IO::Socket::INET6"; 1". It's not *ideal*, but we don't live in an ideal world. This is a pretty good solution, though. Regards, Jonathan Rockway
