On Saturday 07 August 2010 15:56:28 Ovid wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> > > > > On Saturday 07 August 2010 00:44:05 Ovid wrote: > > > Laughing at that "active_dev" tag. > > > > What's wrong with it? > > First, my apologies for being so flippant. That was rude of me and I'm > sorry. I just typed what popped into my head without thinking about how it > sounded. > > Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that these tags become popular. > Over time, the majority of CPAN modules are not actively developed because > the authors move on to other languages, other careers, or just forget > about the darned module. They're going to leave the "active_dev" tag > there because they forgot about it, not because it's true. > > I can't tell you how many times I've supplied a complete patch, with tests > and documentation, for a known bug in a module and had absolutely no > response from the author. If I am willing to do all of that work for them > and they ignore it, why on earth would they bother with a new release just > to fix a tag which doesn't alter the module's functionality? They won't. > They're not going to care.
And I'd like to add that you're guilty of the same sin: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=54214 I've supplied a pending patch (with documentation and tests) on 27-March, with a reminder on 25-June and it wasn't applied yet, and I got no response yet. I've also tried to get ADAMK to apply my patch on IRC several times and he did not pay attention long enough to get it applied. Disappointedly yours, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Portability Libraries - http://shlom.in/port-libs God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
