Re: Adopt Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoSecrets?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Nils,

I’ve just transferred the first-come permission to you on 
Mojolicious::Plugin::AutoSecrets – Meredith was happy for you to take it on.

Thanks to both of you.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Contact info for Barcode::ZBar

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Tim,

Jeff Brown (SPADIX) came back to me saying that he was happy for you to have 
co-maint on Barcode-ZBar, so I have just made that change.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: User update for LOCHMATT

[Neil Bowers via modules]

> Record update in the PAUSE users database:Data were entered by NEILB (Neil 
> Bowers).


Just for the record: Thomas requested a new account, but he already had an 
unused account, that was created in 2004. I had some email with him offline, 
and convinced it was the same person, I updated the old account with his new 
email address, so he now has access to that. I deleted his request for the new 
account (CDS).

Neil

Re: About taking over CLASS module

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Jacques,
> I saw Michael is looking for someone to take over CLASS and I was willing to, 
> and tried to contact him, but to no avail.
> Would you be in contact with him ? I tried his cpan e-mail as well as 
> [redacted]
> Here is a link to the page : https://metacpan.org/pod/CLASS

I’ve emailed SCHWERN to see if he’s happy for you to adopt it. If he is, I’ll 
make the change on his behalf.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: cpan module Return::MultiLevel

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Graham,

I’ve tried a number of times to contact Lukas, to see if he’s happy for you to 
have co-maint, with no success.

Consequently I’ve just given you co-maint on Return::MultiLevel.

Lukas: if you don’t want Graham to have co-maint, just contact me privately and 
I’ll remove the permissions.

Neil

Adoption of Eval::Closure

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Jesse,

I'm emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat.

If you're not maintaining it any more, are you happy for the Moose cabal to
be given first-come (and co-maints) on Eval::Closure? It only has 15 direct
dependents, but three of them are heavyweights, resulting init being pretty
far up the CPAN river.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Feed::Find test failures

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Ben said that he’s happy for Dave to have co-maint, so I’ve just done that on 
Ben’s behalf.

On behalf of CPAN, thank you both.

Neil

Re: Maintenance for module WWW::LEO

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Alex,
> I would like to ask if you could grant me co-maint on the Perl module 
> WWW::LEO.I reached the original module author via LinkedIn and asked for 
> permission to take over maintenance and he agreed.

I’ve just transferred the first-come indexing permission to you (ASB), leaving 
Joerg (ZIEFLE) with co-maint.

Thanks Alex for taking this on, and Joerg for being happy for him to do that.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt Text::MultiMarkdown and Text::Markdown

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Gryphon,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.
> I'd like to adopt the Text::MultiMarkdown and Text::Markdown modules.

Text::MultiMarkdown was marked ADOPTME, so I’ve just transferred first-come to 
you.

Text::Markdown has first-come assigned to Sebastian Riedel, even though Tomas 
did all but the first three releases. I’ll try and contact both of them, to get 
their blessing for a transfer, so bear with me on that dist for a while please.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report AKHUETTEL/Lab-Measurement-3.751.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Andreas,
> > [PAUSE didn’t index Lab::Instrument::LabViewHeater in your release of 
> > Lab-Measurement, saying you didn’t have an indexing permission]
> This failure is odd and looks like a bug... The failed module has been partof 
> Lab::Measurement for ages and was not changed during the last releases.
> Any idea what went wrong?

This does look like there might be some bug. Before your 3.751 release, the 
indexing permissions on that package were:

    Lab::Instrument::LabViewHeater,AKHUETTEL,c
    Lab::Instrument::LabViewHeater,SCHROEER,f

But now they’re listed as

    Lab::Instrument::LabViewHeater,SCHROEER,f

We previously had a bug which manifested a bit like this, but it was fixed last 
year, and we’ve not seen something like this since. I’ll open a new bug for 
this.

I’ve put the permission back, and will force a re-indexing on your release 
right after this email, so we can see if it works this time, or whether your 
co-maint will disappear again. You’ll get a confirmation of the re-indexing 
from PAUSE, and then the result of the re-indexing within an hour.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Net::Telnet adoption

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Dmitry,
> I've sent a patch to the author [of Net::Telnet] in 2018, he's responsive but 
> he doesn't care.Would that be possible to adopt the module?

Given that he’s responded recently, to say that he doesn’t want to give 
co-maint, but hopes to do a release in a month or two, then we cannot do a 
"forced adoption".

I understand your frustration, but everyone is a volunteer, and has to fit Perl 
work in around their other commitments, which for all of us can ebb and flow.

I see that you’ve released your own fork. In the meantime, please be patient. 
In time he may realise that he’s not going to get to it, and will then be open 
to granting to co-maint. I’ve had that happen to me multiple times over the 
years. And I’ve been on the other side too: where I do really want to keep 
maintaining something, but eventually realise I have to let it go.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Fwd: PAUSE indexer report JDEGUEST/Nice-Try-v1.0.0.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Jacques,
> I submitted this updated version 4 hours ago and it still does not show up on 
> CPAN.

It was showing in the CPAN Index, but not showing on MetaCPAN – it looks like 
MetaCPAN had a temporary issue, which now seems resolved.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.42 was not released properly

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hayashi-san,

When you get an error message like this from PAUSE, the first thing to try is a 
2nd attempt at indexing.

You can request this yourself, via the web interface: select "Force Reindexing" 
in the left sidebar, click the checkbox next to the tarball for your release, 
and then click on the Reindex button. The reindexing will be scheduled, and 
will happen within the hour. You’ll get another email from PAUSE with the 
results.

But this time I have triggered the re-indexing for you.

In return, can I ask that you delete your old files from your author directory 
on PAUSE please? You’ll find "Delete Files" near the top of the left sidebar.

Thanks,
Neil

Re: Algorithm-SkipList

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi,
> When I log in to PAUSE, it still shows [Algorithm::SkipList] as owned by 
> ADOPTME.

I’m not sure if this was caused by the recent issue with PAUSE, or something 
else, but I’ve just transferred first-come from ADOPTME to JGAMBLE, and have 
confirmed that the permissions have moved.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report RRWO/Set-Light-0.95.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Robert,

I used to have co-maint permissions for Set-Light. They seem to have
gone away.

PAUSE temporarily ran out of diskspace, which caused problems when indexing 
releases. As part of this, a few module names lost co-maint permissions. I’ve 
added them back to Set::Light, and triggered a re-indexing of your release.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Fwd: Failed: PAUSE indexer report DAVECROSS/App-CPANModuleSite-0.0.8.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Dave,

PAUSE had a hiccup over night, which meant that releases in a roughly 20-hour 
period didn’t get re-indexed.

I’ve started reindexing the affected releases, and can see that your 
App-CPANModuleSite 0.0.8 release is now in the index.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt Emailesque.pm

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Martin,
> I already prepared a new version and uploaded it 
> tohttps://www.cpan.org/authors/id/F/FA/FANY/Emailesque-1.27.tar.gz
> Can you please give me maintainer permissions for this namespaceso that it 
> will get indexexed

I’ve
I’

Because you’ve

If you’re going to release 1.28 soon, you could just wait for that, and when 
you release it, it will be indexed.

Otherwise you can ask PAUSE to reconsider your tarball for indexing: in the 
PAUSE web interface, select "Force Reindexing" in the left sidebar, click on 
the checkbox next to Emailesque-1.27.tar.gz, and then hit Reindex. There will 
be a delay of up to an hour, and then you’ll get an email from PAUSE.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Co-maint on File-ReadBackwards?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Uri,
> sure. i gave co-maint on file::slurp. what kinds of bugs are there in 
> backwards? i didn't realize anyone was depending on it.

Thank you for responding quickly, and for ok’ing the co-maint.

There are 6 bugs open, but the one we’re keen to see a fix for is this one: 
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=92313

The distribution has 15 direct dependents on CPAN, and a total of 30 
distributions rely on it. One of those is maintained by Graham Ollis 
(PLICEASE), who I’ve copied on this email. He has offered to take it on and 
release fixes. I’ve just given him co-maint on your behalf.

Thank you both.

Neil

Co-maint on File-ReadBackwards?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Uri,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

Your module has a File::ReadBackwards has a number of open bugs, and given 
there are other CPAN modules relying it on, it would be good to get the bugs 
fixed.

Would you be happy for me to assign co-maint, so that we can get someone to do 
a release?

Cheers,
Neil

Re: (forw) Failed: PAUSE indexer report MARKOV/home/markov/local/perl-git/MIME-Types/ public_html/mime-types/source/MIME-Types-219targz/MIME-Types-2.19.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Er, I’m curious why you’ve put it down in this directory structure:

    
home/markov/local/perl-git/MIME-Types/public_html/mime-types/source/MIME-Types-219targz/MIME-Types-2.19.tar.gz

?

Cheers,
Neil

Re: (forw) Failed: PAUSE indexer report MARKOV/home/markov/local/perl-git/MIME-Types/ public_html/mime-types/source/MIME-Types-219targz/MIME-Types-2.19.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Mark,

When this happens, you can ask PAUSE to have another go at indexing your 
release. In nearly every case (where you get the "timeout" error message) this 
will sort it.

When you log into PAUSE, you’ll see "Force Reindexing" in the sidebar; clicking 
on that will show a list of the files in your author directory. Click on the 
checkbox next to your tarball and then click on the "Reindex" button.

Next time you’ll know, but for this time I’ll give you a free re-indexing — 
you’ll get a message soon after this one, saying that I triggered a reindexing. 
It will be scheduled within the hour, and then you’ll get the results.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: request to adopt PPIx::DocumentName

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Graham,
> I'd like to volunteer to adopt PPIx-DocumentName, which appears to be up for 
> ADOPTME.  I have some use for it and I'd like to make some minor enhancements 
> to get location information.  I'm happy to do any required maintenance, 
> though it seems to already be in pretty good shape atm.  I feel I have a 
> pretty good track record with the modules already adopted.  Thank you for 
> your consideration.

I’ve just transferred the first-come permission to PLICEASE. Thanks for taking 
this on.

Cheers,
Neil

RE: Forgot Login Details for DBD::DB2 module

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Shilu, Binit, Rulesh, & co,

I have just transferred the indexing permissions for DBD-DB2 to the ROCKETDB 
user.

Thank you all for your patience while we resolved this.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Split first-come permissions Trouble

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Heh, the "Crixa Event" sounds like a meteorite hitting, which it sounds like it 
sorta was.

I’ve transferred first-come from PERIGRIN to STEVAN (with PERIGRIN getting 
co-maint), so things are consistent again.

Neil

Re: Split first-come permissions Trouble

[Neil Bowers via modules]

> I recall that there was a metadata change between releases 2.2013 and 2.2014 
> (last year) to allow some internal modules to be indexed. I did those 
> releases.. how did PERIGRIN end up with first-come? that seems like a pause 
> bug.

Ah, Checking META.json for 2.2013, these four packages were all excluded from 
indexing by the no_index.

So I don’t think this was down to a PAUSE bug. My guess is that the packages 
already had indexing permissions (either from earlier releases, not necessarily 
of Moose), but were being ignored by the PAUSE indexer because of the no_index.

When no_index was changed, PAUSE would have considered them for indexing. And 
because they already had indexing permissions, PAUSE wouldn’t try and enforce 
the recent rules on consistent permissions — that applies to packages that 
don’t have any indexing permissions.

Neil

Split first-come permissions Trouble

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi,

I’ve got a script that tells me if a distribution ends up with split first-come 
permissions.

Moose now has this, as a result of the following packages, which have PERIGRIN 
as first-come:

    Moose::Util::TypeConstraints::Builtins
    Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor::Native::Array::first_index
    Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor::Native::Hash::shallow_clone
    Moose::Meta::Method::Accessor::Native::Array::shallow_clone

This usually happens when a distribution is subsumed by a bigger one.

Assuming the right fix here is for PERIGRIN to transfer first-come to STEVAN, 
but wanted to check with you first. You can make the move Chris, or I’m happy 
to do it for you.

Neil

Re: Perl/CPAN: permission to maintain the DBD::DB2 database driver

[Neil Bowers via modules]

My email to IBM bounced. I discovered other people trying to contact the same 
group, getting bounces, and then being told to raise a ticket on their github 
repo.

So I’ve opened a ticket on their repo for DBD-DB2: 
https://github.com/ibmdb/perl_DBD-DB2/issues/2

Neil

Re: Forgot Login Details for DBD::DB2 module

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

When transferring permissions, particularly in situations like this, where a 
module is attributed to another company, we need confirmation from the other 
company that they’re happy for the permissions transfer to take place.

I will try and contact IBM, but if you have someone that I can contact at IBM, 
that will help the process.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Please give me COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/pyperl

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Shlomi,

I’ve given you first-come on the PAUSE indexing permissions for pyperl, and 
dropped GAAS, as per Gisle’s wishes.

Please note:

The distribution doesn’t include a "pyperl" package, but PAUSE now requires 
that someone releasing a distribution has an indexing permission on the package 
name corresponding to the distribution name.

So you now have first-come on "pyperl" as well. At the moment PAUSE has a 
bug[1] whereby if you were to give someone co-maint on this distribution, PAUSE 
wouldn't give them co-maint on pyperl, and as a result any of their releases 
wouldn't be indexed.

Until that bug gets fixed, you either need to remember this – should you want 
to give someone co-maint – or add a pyperl package to the distribution.

Cheers,
Neil

[1] https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/362

Re: Please give me COMAINT on https://metacpan.org/release/pyperl

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Shlomi,

Thanks for being patient. This is on my todo list for this Easter weekend 
(4-day weekend in the UK).

Neil

Re: Fwd: CPAN module Data::HexDump

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Two weeks ago I emailed FTASSIN:
> Would you be happy for me to have co-maint, or even to take over the 
> first-come permission for your Data::HexDump perl module, which you last 
> released to CPAN in September 1999?There are 4 bugs open for it, and it 
> doesn’t follow a number of recent CPAN conventions, but it does have 9 other 
> CPAN distributions dependent on it, so I was wondering if I could take it 
> over, fix the bugs, and release a new version?

Then a week ago I wrote:
> This email to his PAUSE address bounced.There’s another email address in the 
> doc, but that bounced too.I’ve sent messages to the three Fabien Tassins 
> known to LinkedIn.So far one has replied, with "I don’t know what you’re 
> talking about" :-)
> Given FTASSIN hasn’t released anything since 1999, I think this is fine for a 
> first-come transfer, but I’ll wait a bit longer. In the meantime, I’m going 
> to do a developer release

I’ve failed to contact him. I’ve given myself co-maint, so I can do a release 
which fixes all outstanding bugs.

Neil

Re: Request for adoption: Dist-Zilla-App-Command-regenerate

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Dan,

I’ve transferred the first-come permissions on 
Dist-Zilla-App-Command-regenerate to you. Thanks for taking this on.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Transfer primary on Alien::FFTW3 from zowie to etj

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Craig,

I’ve just transferred the first-come indexing permission on Alien::FFTW3 to Ed 
(ETJ). You have retained co-maint. I can drop that for you, if you’re not 
interested in holding on to permissions on Alien::FFTW3.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adoption offer: Digest::HMAC

[Neil Bowers via modules]

> I'll get [a release of Digest-HMAC] out by this week.

Great — thank you!

Re: Fwd: Failed: PAUSE indexer report JDEGUEST/Module-Generic-v0.14.0.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Jacques,

If you look at one of the listed fails (I’ve highlighted the two key versions):
> module : Module::Generic::Arrayversion: 0.001002in file: 
> Module-Generic-v0.14.0/lib/Module/Generic/Array.pmstatus : Not indexed 
> becauseModule-Generic-v0.13.6/lib/Module/Generic.pm 
> inJ/JD/JDEGUEST/Module-Generic-v0.13.6.tar.gz has a higherversion number 
> (0.013006)

This is saying that module Module::Generic::Array has version 0.013006 in the 
index, but the version of that module in this release is 0.001002

I can see this version here:
    
https://metacpan.org/release/Module-Generic/source/lib/Module/Generic/Array.pm#L36

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adoption offer: Digest::HMAC

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Andrew,
> I would be glad to take over Digest::HMAC from GAAS if no one more qualified 
> wants it. I maintain Crypt::PBKDF2, which is one of Digest::HMAC's bigger 
> revdeps, I've been around for a while, and I have no intention of breaking 
> anything. I don't anticipate that Digest::HMAC will require a lot of 
> maintenance (the code is bare-bones to do one simple task, and has gotten by 
> without a release in 10 years) but I will respond to anything that comes up.

Thank you for taking this on. Given your other dists and experience, we don’t 
have a problem with you adopting it.

Normally the previous maintainer retains co-maint, but in this case Gisle made 
it clear that he doesn’t want to be contacted about his old distributions, so 
I’ve dropped his co-maint.

If you’ve time, it would be great if you could do a release fairly soon please, 
just so it’s listed on CPAN against you and not Gisle.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Fwd: Failed: PAUSE indexer report EZIMUEL/ Search-Elasticsearch-Client-7_0-7.712.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Enrico,

It looks like when you were given co-maint on the 
Search-Elasticsearch-Client-7_0 distribution, you didn’t get co-maint on the 
Search::Elasticsearch::Client::7_0::Role::Bulk package.

I’ve just given you co-maint.

Because you didn’t have an indexing permission on that one package, it means 
that the CPAN Index lists just that one package against the previous release 
(7.711 rather than 7.712). This shouldn’t be a problem, and when you do the 
7.713 release, everything should be indexed just fine.

Happy to go into this in more details, if the above is a bit opaque.

Cheers,
Neil

Fwd: CPAN module Data::HexDump

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Last week I tried to email Fabien Tassin (FTASSIN), the author of 
Data::HexDump, copying it here:
> Would you be happy for me to have co-maint, or even to take over the 
> first-come permission for your Data::HexDump perl module, which you last 
> released to CPAN in September 1999?
> There are 4 bugs open for it, and it doesn’t follow a number of recent CPAN 
> conventions, but it does have 9 other CPAN distributions dependent on it, so 
> I was wondering if I could take it over, fix the bugs, and release a new 
> version?

This email to his PAUSE address bounced.
There’s another email address in the doc, but that bounced too.
I’ve sent messages to the three Fabien Tassins known to LinkedIn.
So far one has replied, with "I don’t know what you’re talking about" :-)

Given FTASSIN hasn’t released anything since 1999, I think this is fine for a 
first-come transfer, but I’ll wait a bit longer.
In the meantime, I’m going to do a developer release

Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Steve,
> Just to wrap this all up: libapreq2-2.16 is now uploaded and iscorrectly 
> indexed:
> https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/libapreq2-2.16

Great — thanks for that, and for letting us know.

Cheers,
Neil

RE: Alien::FFTW3 - take over?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Craig,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins. Would you like me to give Ed co-maint on 
Alien::FFTW3 on your behalf, or even to transfer the first-come to him, and 
leave you with co-maint?

Cheers,
Neil

CPAN module Data::HexDump

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Fabien,

Would you be happy for me to have co-maint, or even to take over the first-come 
permission for your Data::HexDump perl module, which you last released to CPAN 
in September 1999?

There are 4 bugs open for it, and it doesn’t follow a number of recent CPAN 
conventions, but it does have 9 other CPAN distributions dependent on it, so I 
was wondering if I could take it over, fix the bugs, and release a new version?

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Ownership control over POE::Filter::SSL

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Paul,

You may have already heard from Markus, but I also wanted to send this so it’s 
"on the record" ...

I got in touch with Markus, and he was happy to give you co-maint, which you 
now have.

He has a spam filter in place, which is why you seemed to get radio silence. To 
preserve his private email address, I’ve bcc’d this email to Markus.

Thanks to both of you.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt MIDI::SoundFont?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Duy,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

You wrote:
> I'm interested in adopting the MIDI::SoundFont module. If you can grant me 
> the privilege I will release the next version.

If you want to get co-maint on a distribution, or adopt it, you first need to 
have a PAUSE account.

If you haven’t got an account already, you can register for one via PAUSE: 
https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=request_id

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Ownership control over POE::Filter::SSL

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Markus,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

As you hopefully saw, Paul Webster has asked if he can have co-maint on your 
POE::Filter::SSL module, so he can release bug fixes.

If you’re happy for him to have co-maint, I can make the changes on your 
behalf. Just let me know if you’d like me to.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Steve,

Sorry we hadn’t got back to you before now.

The problem here was the "provides" section in META.yml. Because it’s missing 
the file: line for each module, it’s now considered an invalid metadata file. 
So CPAN::Meta refuses to load it. When that happens, MetaCPAN construct a new 
metadata file for the distribution, which ends up pulling all of the packages 
found in the tarball.

You don’t have permissions on all of them (because PAUSE thinks they’re not 
candidates for indexing).

Andreas and I have been emailing back and forth trying to agree the right / 
best way to resolve this.

The cleanest way would be for you to do a new release that has a valid 
META.yml. If that’s not possible at the moment, Andreas and I will resolve it 
another way for now, and you can fix META.yml for your next release.

Cheers,
Neil

Your ERIAM account

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Eriam,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

I’ve updated your ERIAM account with your current email address. Having looked 
at your github repo, and the history of a dist that is both there and on CPAN, 
I’m happy that you’re the same Eriam.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Steve,
> Thanks for this. I'm happy to see that this release now appears on
> MetaCPAN, but numerous modules within it are listed as "UNAUTHORIZED"
> when I look at https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.
>
> The previous release at
> https://metacpan.org/release/ISAAC/libapreq2-2.13 does not have this
> problem, so there is still a gremlin hiding somewhere in the system.

Ah.  When I gave you co-maint, it didn’t give you co-maint on all the packages. 
I’ll go through them one-by-one tonight, and fix this. I’ll shout when it’s all 
sorted.

Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

> Too many years in between and too much code changes on PAUSE to have a
> clear view what might be the cause. My current theory is that it's to do
> with a weakness in this META.yml: the "provides" entries in the META.yml
> all have no "file" attribute:

That was my guess too, when looking at it last night. But then I noticed that 
the .13 release is similar, so I decided to sleep on it.

I just looked at the Changes file for CPAN::Meta, and there have been some 
changes / bug fixes related to handling of provides. So maybe the version being 
used by PAUSE when the .13 release was fine with that?

I just checked the spec (CPAN::Meta::Spec), which says that the "file" key is 
required (https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Meta::Spec#file1). Can you do a .16 
release please Steve, with a file: key for each module listed in the provides: 
section.

Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Steve,

Ah, I forgot to mention — you’ll need to force PAUSE to re-index the tarball 
you uploaded.

When you log in to PAUSE, in the life sidebar you’ll see "Force Reindexing", 
under "Utils" (3rd section). When you click on that you’ll get a list of the 
files in your upload directory. Click the checkbox next to 
libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz and then click on "Reindex". You’ll get an email within 
the hour with the results of the reindexing.

That will make your release appear in the CPAN Index. MetaCPAN will need to 
reindex it as well — I’ll give them a nudge once your reindexing is done.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report SHAY/libapreq2-2.15.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Steve,

I’ve just given you co-maint on libapreq2. That includes all the packages in 
the distribution, and the pseudo-package "libapreq2", permissions on which are 
required for you to do a release.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Algorithm-SkipList

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi John,

TL;DR: I’ve transferred the first-come permissions on Algorithm-SkipList to you.

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.
> I was surprised to see Algorithm-SkipList marked as owned by ADOPTME in
> PAUSE, which is not the case in MetaCPAN, where it is owned by Robert
> Rothenburg (although it is marked for adoption, see
> ).

As Dan Book pointed out, when you search for a module on CPAN, by default 
you’re shown the release that’s in the CPAN Index. Usually that’s the most 
recent release, but it might not be (for example developer releases don’t go in 
the index, and if the uploader didn’t have any indexing permission(s), then it 
would also not be indexed). And the person listed against it is the person who 
uploaded it.

> What is the process for adoption, assuming that RRWO is amenable?

Given it’s marked as ADOPTME, the process is that you ask the PAUSE admins, and 
it’s polite to ask for the blessing of the previous owner (and Robert has given 
that). If the distribution is depended on by a lot of other CPAN modules, then 
we’ll consider whether you’re the right person to take it on, or at least that 
you’re aware that releasing a broken version could result in a cascade of 
failures. If you hover over the bars next to the distribution name, you’ll see 
that two distributions depend on this, which isn’t concerning.

So I’ve transferred first-come from ADOPTME to you, for all the modules in the 
distribution. Thanks for taking this on.

Final point: when you submit requests like these, please include your PAUSE id. 
I hope JGAMBLE was the right John Gamble? ;-)

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt Test::NoBreakpoints?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Blaine,
> I'm interested in adopting the Test::NoBreakpoints module. If you can
> grant me the privilege I will release the next version.

I’ve just transferred the first-come permission to BLAINEM.

Apologies for the delay — you have adopted a number of distributions recently, 
and without a CPAN track record I wanted to do a bit of due diligence. You 
checked out ;-)

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopting File::Assets

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Robert,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

If you’re happy for Veesh to have co-maint on File::Assets, I can do that on 
your behalf. Just let me know with a reply to this email, and I can do the rest.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Fw: PAUSE indexer report BSHIELDS/Data-QuickMemoPlus-Reader-0.07.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Brent,

I think the problem is the following, which is in the metadata:

   "provides" : {
      "Data::QuickMemoPlus::Reader" : {
         "file" : "lib/Data\\QuickMemoPlus\\Reader.pm",
         "version" : "0.08"
      }
   },

That path is probably confusing metacpan. I’m not familiar with Minilla, so 
you’ll need to look into how it generates the metadata files, as the path is 
wrong in both of them.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt Text::Lorem?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Blaine,

I got in touch with Adeola, and he’s happy for you to have co-maint on 
Text::Lorem, so I’ve just made that change.

Adeola also asked me to let you know that his repo for it is 
https://github.com/adeolaawoyemi/Text-Lorem

I’ve bcc’d Adeola on this email.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt MooX::Should?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Theo & Robert,

I’ve just given Theo the first-come indexing permission on MooX::Should.

Thanks for taking it on Theo.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt List::Uniq?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Blaine,
> I'm interested in adopting the List::Uniq module. If you can grant me
> the privilege I will release the next version.
> my PAUSE id is BLAINEM


I’ve just transferred the first-come indexing permission on List::Uniq.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Issue in XML::SimpleObject::LibXML Author DBRIAN not reachable

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Roman,

I feel I found an issue in  XML::SimpleObject::LibXML 0.60 in combination with 
perl 5.6 and XML::LibXML (will have to look up the version).

I was able to do a quick fix for me.
Perl is used in our build system for embedded firmware. Hence I am not a Perl 
professional.

The bug tracker is to be closed down soon. The author did not react on my 
email. The module has not been maintained for some 16 years.

In cases like this, I generally do the following:

1. I have a look at the author’s page on MetaCPAN 
(https://metacpan.org/author/DBRIAN), to see if they released anything 
recently. Danny last released something in 2014.
2. I have a look at the list of bugs, so see if there’s much recent action. 
There isn’t.
3. I check whether there are other modules dependent on this module — if so, 
there may be other people who are interested in seeing it fixed.  This is the 
graphic with grey/blue bars, next to the distribution name. There aren’t any.
4. Then I’ll try emailing the author at the email address shown on MetaCPAN 
(dbr...@cpan.org). If it bounces, that’s one thing. If there’s no reply, it 
might be going to an unread mailbox, or maybe he’s moved on and is no longer 
interested in Perl. In which case, you need to make your email really easy for 
him to reply to.
5. Search for his name on github, and see whether (a) he has a repo for the 
module you’re interested in, or (b) whether there are signs of recent activity.
6. You could email him with a suggested bugfix. If that doesn’t get a reply, 
and doesn’t bounce, then you could email asking if he’d be happy to give you 
co-maint permission on the module, so you can do a bugfix release.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adoption request for some modules

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Veesh,
> Anyways, I've been trying to reach the various authors of 
> [SQL::SplitStatement and Dancer::Plugin:Assets], but they've been 
> unresponsive for the past several months. Would I be able to get access to 
> make the necessary changes?

Please send separate emails to the authors of these modules, copying in 
modules@perl.org, so we have an audit trail. You may find that copying us in 
prompts a response. If not, I will try and contact the authors as well.

If those steps fail, then we’ll consider giving you co-maint. Please look at 
the number of downstream distributions when making your case.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt POE::Component::Server::AsyncEndpoint?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Haroon,

I’m one of the PAUSE admins.

POE::Component::Server::AsyncEndpoint is marked ADOPTME, so you can take 
ownership of it.

But I can’t find a PAUSE account for you — do you have one?

If not, you’ll need to go to pause.perl.org and sign up for an account first.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Requesting Tkx maintainership

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Christopher,
> I would like to adopt the Tkx module. I sent an email directly to Gisle Aas 
> last year and had opened a GitHub issue [1] to request maintainership (no 
> response to either), but have since found the blog post [2] instructing to 
> inquire through this address instead.

I’ve just transferred the first-come permissions on Tkx to you. Thank you for 
taking this on.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: CPAN Adopt AnyEvent::Pcap

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Sergey,

I’ve just given you co-maint on AnyEvent-Pcap, as I’ve been unable to contact 
Miki-san.

Miki-san, if you don’t want Sergey to have co-maint, just let me know, and I 
can revert this.

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt Lingua::Conjunction?

[Neil Bowers via modules]

I’ve transferred the first-come permissions on Lingua::Conjunction to NHORNE.

Happy New Year to you all,
Neil

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report TOMC/Devel-WatchVars-v1.0.4.tar.gz

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Tom,

The problem is this line in WatchVars.pm:

    our $VERSION = v1.0.4;

PAUSE doesn’t support unquoted v-strings, so changing it to "v1.0.4" should do 
the trick.

I’ve logged this as a PAUSE issues: https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/365

Cheers,
Neil

Re: Adopt Dancer2::Template::Xslate

[Neil Bowers via modules]

Hi Peter,

I’ve just transferred first-come on Dancer2::Template::Xslate to you.

Cheers,
Neil