Forwarding a mail from Neil Bowers that he tried to send to modules@ but which disappeared on the way to the list.
Neil, I've made you co-maintainer of Lingua::EN::Numbers. I know you as a conscientiously and thoroughly working man and I'm glad you're persuing the fix of the bug you discovered. I would believe that it's in the best interest of Sean that you take over the mainteinance of this module. Thank you very much for doing that. I've added co-maintainer rights for Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate and Lingua::EN::Numbers::Years too. If it turns out you don't need them, you can remove the permission bits for them on the PAUSE interface. Sean, if you read this and do not agree, this is completely reversible, please let us know if you would prefer a different solution. Jonathan Bailey, I'm CCing you too because you are a co-maintainer and may have the urge to say something on the matter. Thanks, everybody! -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- From: Neil Bowers <n...@bowers.com> Subject: Fwd: Lingua::EN::Numbers - request for co-maintainer status Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:19:01 +0000 This one is perhaps slightly less clear cut. Allison Randal (one of the co-maintainers who took over Pod::Simple from Sean) commented in email to me: > He likes to see evidence of sustained contribution, so he > won't hand it off on the first patch, but with several good patches, and > demonstrating interest in keeping on top of bugs and new releases, > there's a good chance he will. I don't know, he might have already > handed this one off, I only tracked the Pod:: modules. If he did already > hand it off, the new maintainer hasn't been active, so it still might be > a candidate for adoption. So if he's expressed a clear preference somewhere / to someone, then I don't want to go against that, but on the other hand, I've made quite a bit of effort to get in touch with him, and no-one else seems to be stepping forward. Begin forwarded message: > From: Neil Bowers <n...@bowers.com> > Subject: Lingua::EN::Numbers - request for co-maintainer status > Date: 11 November 2011 10:20:46 GMT > To: modules@perl.org > > Hi, > > I'd like to be granted co-maintainer status on Lingua::EN::Numbers. > > The current version is 1.01, release by Sean Burke 2005-01-06. He took over > the module > from Stephen Pandich and completely rewrote it. > > I wrote a review of modules for spelling out numbers in English: > > http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2011/09/cpan-modules-for-spelling-out-numbers-in-english.html > > Lingua::EN::Numbers came out top, but I found a bug which I fixed. I'd like > to release that fix, > and resolve at least some if not all of the open RT issues (many of which > have been fixed anyway). > > I'd also like to address some of the issues/ideas which came up during the > review. > > I first emailed Sean two months ago (12th September). I've tried contacting > him a number of ways, > but have had no response. I recently mailed module-authors, and was told he's > retired, with a pointer > to Pod::Simple, which had been handed over by Sean. > > I had email with the three maintainers of Pod::Simple, who said: > - they didn't have another way of contacting Sean other than his cpan > address > - they thought he'd handed over his modules, but perhaps not all of them > - Sean may be waiting for more evidence that I'm serious about > maintaining the module > > Was co-maintainer status granted to someone else for Lingua::EN::Numbers, and > if so, > can you tell me who please, so I can contact them. > > Neil > -------------------- End of forwarded message -------------------- -- andreas
