On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:47:35 +0300 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote:
> Hi Jim and all! > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:27:16 -0400 > James E Keenan <jkee...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On 4/14/20 8:10 AM, Peter John Acklam wrote: > > > The Math-Complex distribution appears to be dead. The latest > > > release is more than eight(!) years old. The RT queue is growing, > > > but there doesn't seem to be any active maintenance. > > > > > > Upstream for Math-Complex is CPAN, so I contacted both RAM > > > (Raphael Manfredi) and ZEFRAM, who are the maintainers listed on > > > https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Math-Complex > > > > > > RAM replied and said he is no longer active. ZEFRAM, who is the > > > one listed in Porting/Maintainers.pl, has not replied to the > > > e-mail I sent more than a month ago. > > > > > > Is there any hope of further maintenance and bug fixing? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Peter / PJACKLAM on CPAN > > > > Our alternatives would be: > > > > 1. Go through the CPAN procedures for seeking a new upstream > > maintainer. Have that person(s) (presumably someone who knows about > > complex numbers) go through the bug queue and do a new CPAN release, > > which then gets merged into blead. > > > > I am willing to adopt Math::Complex assuming nobody more suitable will also > volunteer. I studied complex numbers back in high school and later on for my > B.Sc in Elec Eng. > > I am "SHLOMIF" on PAUSE. > Note that I set up a maintenance branch here: https://github.com/shlomif/Math-Complex/tree/shlomif-maint-branch I applied some fixes for RT tickets. Feel free to fork or contribute. > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > 2. Within the core distribution, move it from cpan/ to dist/ and have > > it be blead-upstream thereafter. We would, in practice, still need > > someone with expertise to evaluate bug reports and be designated CPAN > > releasor, and CPAN would have to give P5P rights to release on CPAN. > > > > Jim Keenan > > > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Can-I-SCO-Now/ - “Can I SCO Now?” There is no IGLU Cabal! Home‐made Cabals eventually superseded the power and influence of the original IGLU Cabal, which was considered a cutting edge development at its time. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .
