On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, John M. Gamble wrote:
Your "long-standing bug" may be someone else's feature. Who cares about
archiving? What would anyone gain from that?
Let's be realistic. A long-standing bug is probably a bug. But yes,
archiving would not help.
The key point isn't "bug or feature", it's that there's lots of very
widely used, very usable modules with long-standing bugs. Many of my most
popular modules, like DateTime, Log::Dispatch, and Params::Validate, have
long-standing bugs, but they're still usable and used.
No, it sounds like an incoherent rant from somebody that knows nothing
about the CPAN.
Okay, that was uncalled for. It wasn't incoherent, and it wasn't a
rant, and trying to be dismissive like that doesn't help even if the
thesis was wrong. I agree that the problems listed mostly aren't
problems (on the other hand, I'm not going to pretend Time::Cube didn't
happen). Furthermore, the best solutions to the perceived problems are
patch first, apply for co-ownership second.
I agree, Jon (R), there's no call to be so rude.
-dave
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