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Subject: Re: A Semi-Public Version Control Repository for Your CPAN Modules
Date: Thursday 06 July 2006 21:12
From: Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Shlomi,
Sorry for the delay in responding...I'm on my summer speaking tour at the
moment and this is the first free hour I've had in two weeks.
I appreciate you suggestion, and I'm watching Alias's experiment with
considerable interest.
You asked if there was a reason not to do this, and my reason is that I
simply do not (yet) feel comfortable with this approach to distributed
development. Nor am I convinced that it would be a win for me. Opening up
the module to other committers doesn't eliminate the work, it just reduces
it from development (which I enjoy) to supervision (which I loathe). And it
doesn't address the real problem: it's not that I don't have enough time to
maintain most of my modules...it's that I don't have *any* time to do so.
Changing how that maintenance is done won't magically make that time
available.
All the best,
Damian
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