On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Tels wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Moin, > > I Cc:ed [EMAIL PROTECTED], they are the "ones" ;) to decide this, if the > authors are not responding. > > Although I wouldn't count on beeing lucky, since I am trying to > "patch/takeover/maintain" Math::Fraction for almost two years. The authors > address is dead, and multiply requests/efforts all resulting in "lets wait > a few months mores" ;)
If it has really been that long then I would agree that we change it. > On 02-Mar-02 Adrian Phillips tried to scribble about: > > > > On the Amavis mailing list (www.amavis.org) it has been mentioned > > several times that Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip are unmaintained, the > > current amavis author has tried to send patches for both packages in > > the past few months without any success; apparently there was supposed > > to be a new version of Archive::Zip released a logn while ago. While Archive::Tar is registered to Calle Dybedahl who uploaded v0.02 back in 1997 Stephen Zander has uploaded a 0.22 release (although that was back on 2000) Have you spoken with Stephen ? Graham. > > > > Now, I would just like to say that I am not criticising the current > > maintainers/authors if they have been unable to find the time to > > release newer versions. I am well aware of the amount of effort > > required to keep packages going especially with other projects and > > real life. > > > > What I would like to ask is :- > > > > - what is the current maintainership state of these 2 modules ? > > > > - if the current maintainers still have big problems would they allow > > the packages to be taken over by someone else ? > > > > - I am willing to do so if they wish, although I do not have any > > existing CPAN modules and will have to go through registering with > > PAUSE (as well as reading the PAUSE docs). > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Adrian Phillips > > - -- > perl -MDev::Bollocks -e'print Dev::Bollocks->rand(),"\n"' > quickly promote industry-wide models > > http://bloodgate.com/perl My current Perl projects > PGP key available on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or via email > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBPIDI5XcLPEOTuEwVAQEu3gf9FApIjGN32QRFKX6ER7s0QGEJm/d2q7Bc > 72WrMqxKpT6zxcqKGvnz93LrBIzX6L8xU3jYVqDSI+RQUh/iiiFEs4LwdF7GVnt+ > P8WX1iyCEnpAjB4qaRPOHSJ7eJe1+MYHzEtxU/6qjQrFRaLkR6ZBW/N6gJlvApak > a0KSajBd5jBb3tvjnOOQ37nMqLG0g4+2ygQ00ERWIHSgR7ABWJDs+4M9xeImMjuT > 0sLMtd6suMX2D/jUqcxN7RA9NoSfgWhXlBwNnjvsWhI50eAf8h/qu/O8rA7tC+9M > 7LtAjGezfkemalgC69mSgS4kmcnkr7O7MgES5ogE4W2ef3TorGMFbg== > =YwiM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
