On 11-11-08 11:22 AM, Neil Bowers wrote:
One of the problems I see with CPAN is that there are many modules which have been left unattended. Many of these have outstanding bugs, and a good number have patches and forked versions, some of which you can find on RT. You'll also find people offering to take over the maintainership of modules. While reviewing modules I've identified a lot of fixes, and documentation improvements, but it can take a lot of effort to get them out.
That's because CPAN uses old technology. But don't blame it; it was state of the art when it started.
Convert CPAN to git and all these problems go away. With git, anyone can fork and improve any module. And if the original author is still interested, he can merge these improvements back into his copy. The only problem left is finding the best fork. :)
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