Hello Chris and everybody, I’m following up on the discussion about Net::SAML2: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules/2017/02/msg97043.html https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules/2017/03/msg97128.html
I’m interested in pushing updates and contributions to it as well, as the lack of a working CPAN module for SAML2 is a blocker for the community. I’m adding my name to the list of volunteers for (co)maintainership. My fork is at https://github.com/alexrj/perl-Net-SAML2 and I’m AAR on CPAN. In the above message, Chris said he was going to check with his company. However, the code is already released under the Perl licenses, so there’s nothing the company can block; we could even rename it to Net::SAML2new module or whatever and continue on that. I’m not sure a company can claim ownership over a CPAN namespace on PAUSE. It’s not copyright matter, and AFAIK there’s no PAUSE policy about that. My suggestion to Chris and the PAUSE admins is to consider Chris himself technically unresponsive (I know he is responsive, but he’s not able to take actions because of his employer :)) and proceed with opening maintainership to other people. Please don’t get me wrong - I don’t really want to sound rude. I totally appreciate the work Chris did on Net::SAML2 (without him we wouldn’t even have it!). I’m suggesting a potential approach for *him* to escape the current restrictions, and let the community work collaboratively on maintaining an important module. Cheers, - Alessandro
