On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > To everybody who are concerned,
> 1. That Derek will get his act together and return to me. (Requires > cooperation > from Derek). > > 2. That I'll be given co-maint for Text::MediawikiFormat on CPAN. (Requires > cooperation from the CPAN admins). It seems unlikely that you would be denied co-maintainership from the CPAN admins based on the length of time it's taken to get anything to happen, and the fact that the module's author already mentioned he would be willing to grant co-maintainership. > 3. That I fork Text::MediawikiFormat under a different name (say > Text::MediawikiFormat::Butter - a play on ::ButMaintained). > 4. Upload your patched module under the same name. It will show up as an unofficial release. Place in the README as well as somewhere in the POD that this unofficial release fixes x, y, and z, and that it was uploaded after you were unable to get a response from the author on the issues. This may seem anti-social, but it is more helpful to the community at large than uploading the module under a different name. The rationale is that if the author ever does absorb the patches and upload a new version, there will only be one module for people to choose from, not two that are 98% identical but with slightly different names, and divergent development histories. CPAN admins first, unofficial upload second... it sort of forces the hand. -- David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com
