Adoption of Abandoned CPAN Distributions from Artur Bergman
Hello, I would like to adopt Artur Bergman's abandoned CPAN distributions, the most recent releases of which range from 13 to 20 years old: https://metacpan.org/author/ABERGMAN I first attempted to contact Artur via e-mail in 2012, but received no reply. I tried to contact him again in 2020 via Facebook and this year via LinkedIn, but still have received no reply now 10 years after my initial try. >From what I can find, it seems that Artur has moved on from Perl a long time ago, and is now focused on his non-Perl company Fastly: https://www.fastly.com/blog/author-artur-bergman https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/18673454 Also, apparently Artur is now extremely wealthy with a reported net worth of $219M, so he probably isn't concerned with CPAN any more: https://www.benzinga.com/sec/insider-trades/fsly/artur-bergman I have recently communicated with Reini Urban, who last released a development version of one of Artur's modules in 2011: https://metacpan.org/release/RURBAN/types-0.05_04 Reini and I have collaborated together on Perl projects in the past, and he said he is fully supportive of my attempt to adopt Artur's CPAN distributions. I am a committed contributor to CPAN and an active member of the Perl community: https://metacpan.org/author/WBRASWELL https://www.youtube.com/c/YAPCNA/search?query=braswell Can you please tell me, what is the official process for me to adopt Artur's CPAN distributions as the primary maintainer, so that I can fix bugs and release new upgraded versions etc? Thanks,~ Will William Norman Braswell, Jr. CEO & President; Auto-Parallel Technologies, Inc. william.brasw...@autoparallel.com 512.563.7984 This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you.
Re: PAUSE Permissions, Parse::Yapp
Can somebody please let me know, what is the status of this request? Thanks! Perling,~ Will the Chill On 1/17/2017 at 5:12 PM, "Neil Bowers" wrote:Hi Will, This is just back to you. Copied on this e-mail is Francois Desarmenien, original creator of the Parse::Yapp module on CPAN. His PAUSE username is FDESAR and his old, now-expired e-mail address is: franc...@fdesar.net […] Can you please help him get his PAUSE account changed over to his current e-mail address? One of the other PAUSE admins covers this sort of request. I’ve nudged him about your request, and will leave it to him. If you don’t get a reply, feel free to email modules@perl.org a reminder in a week or so. Cheers,Neil
Re: PAUSE Permissions, Parse::Yapp
Any progress on this issue? Thanks! :-) On 1/17/2017 at 5:12 PM, "Neil Bowers" wrote:Hi Will, This is just back to you. Copied on this e-mail is Francois Desarmenien, original creator of the Parse::Yapp module on CPAN. His PAUSE username is FDESAR and his old, now-expired e-mail address is: franc...@fdesar.net […] Can you please help him get his PAUSE account changed over to his current e-mail address? One of the other PAUSE admins covers this sort of request. I’ve nudged him about your request, and will leave it to him. If you don’t get a reply, feel free to email modules@perl.org a reminder in a week or so. Cheers,Neil
PAUSE Permissions, Parse::Yapp
Hi Neil, Copied on this e-mail is Francois Desarmenien, original creator of the Parse::Yapp module on CPAN. His PAUSE username is FDESAR and his old, now-expired e-mail address is: franc...@fdesar.net I was able to get in touch with him via Facebook under his pseudonym "Camille Pelletan": https://www.facebook.com/camille.pelletan.7 Francois has now retired from Perl and I will be inheriting Parse::Yapp, but unfortunately he is unable to log into PAUSE because his old e-mail address is no longer valid, and so he can't recover his old PAUSE password. Can you please help him get his PAUSE account changed over to his current e-mail address? f.de...@free.fr Thanks! Perling,~ Will the Chill
Re: PAUSE Permissions, Apache::FileManager & Apache2::FileManager
Hi Neil, Thanks for the excellent info, I do appreciate it! :-) Perling,~ Will the Chill On 1/14/2017 at 10:51 AM, "Neil Bowers" wrote:Hi Will, I'm the new maintainer for the Apache::FileManager and Apache2::FileManager distributions. When viewing the PAUSE permissions for A::FM, I see 2 entries, myself (WBRASWELL) and user PMC. I am listed as the "first come" and PMC is listed as "co-maint"; I am listed as "owner" for both entries. On the A2::FM permissions, I also see 2 entries, myself and user DAVVID. I am listed as the "first come" while DAVVID is "modulelist". Unlike A::FM, I am listed as "owner" for only 1 entry, while DAVVID is listed as "owner" for his A2::FM permission entry. Can you please explain why DAVVID is listed as modulelist instead co-maint? And also, why am I listed as owner on both A::FM permission entries, but only on 1 of the A2::FM entries? If you look in 06perms.txt (the export from PAUSE which says what the permissions are), you’ll see that the entries for A2::FM are: Apache2::FileManager,DAVVID,cApache2::FileManager,WBRASWELL,f PAUSE showing DAVVID as modulelist is left-over from before we removed the module-list permissions. You are the effective owner, as only first-come and co-maint are considered now. Once someone with PAUSE internals knowledge has the tuits, these parts of the PAUSE UI will be updated to remove all the module-list perms stuff. Cheers,Neil
PAUSE Permissions, Apache::FileManager & Apache2::FileManager
Hi, I'm the new maintainer for the Apache::FileManager and Apache2::FileManager distributions. When viewing the PAUSE permissions for A::FM, I see 2 entries, myself (WBRASWELL) and user PMC. I am listed as the "first come" and PMC is listed as "co-maint"; I am listed as "owner" for both entries. On the A2::FM permissions, I also see 2 entries, myself and user DAVVID. I am listed as the "first come" while DAVVID is "modulelist". Unlike A::FM, I am listed as "owner" for only 1 entry, while DAVVID is listed as "owner" for his A2::FM permission entry. Can you please explain why DAVVID is listed as modulelist instead co-maint? And also, why am I listed as owner on both A::FM permission entries, but only on 1 of the A2::FM entries? Thanks! ~ Will
Re: Inline::Filters CPAN Maintenance
Yes please give Reini (and/or myself) maintainer privileges for the Inline::Filters distribution. Neil Watkiss is long gone, we've tried contacting him for months with no reply. Also, Anselmo Canfora (ACANFORA) is working with me to fix the Inline::Filters bug(s), which is why he's involved. Thanks,~ Will, RPerl Creator On 3/28/2014 at 10:17 AM, Reini Urban wrote:There was no answer from Neil on pending Inline::Filters bugs and the unofficial uploads to fix them. First co-maint request was 12/3/13 Inline::Filters is critical for rperl. bulk88 fixed INC as string in 1.12_01 wbraswell and me added support for INC as ARRAY in 1.12_02 Then acanfora came along and uploaded a rogue 1.12_02, which does not meet the standards: See https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=ACANFORA/Inline-Filters-0.12_02/source=RURBAN/Inline-Filters-0.12_02/ Can I have co-maint please? On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Will Braswell wrote: Hi Neil, I'm building RPerl which has a dependency on Inline::Filters. I've found a bug in Filters and fixed it (crudely annotated file attached), how can I go about submitting a patch or fix to become official in CPAN? Thanks! ~ Will Braswell, rperl.org -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/
Re: Inline::Filters CPAN Maintenance
Great, thanks Neil!!! ~ Will On 3/28/2014 at 2:03 PM, Neil Watkiss wrote:I gave RURBAN comaint today. Sorry for not responding earlier; not sure where the notifications went. Neil On 28 Mar 2014, at 18:24, William N. Braswell, Jr. wrote: Yes please give Reini (and/or myself) maintainer privileges for the Inline::Filters distribution. Neil Watkiss is long gone, we've tried contacting him for months with no reply. Also, Anselmo Canfora (ACANFORA) is working with me to fix the Inline::Filters bug(s), which is why he's involved. Thanks,~ Will, RPerl Creator On 3/28/2014 at 10:17 AM, Reini Urban wrote:There was no answer from Neil on pending Inline::Filters bugs and the unofficial uploads to fix them. First co-maint request was 12/3/13 Inline::Filters is critical for rperl. bulk88 fixed INC as string in 1.12_01 wbraswell and me added support for INC as ARRAY in 1.12_02 Then acanfora came along and uploaded a rogue 1.12_02, which does not meet the standards: See https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=ACANFORA/Inline-Filters-0.12_02/source=RURBAN/Inline-Filters-0.12_02/ Can I have co-maint please? On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Will Braswell wrote: Hi Neil, I'm building RPerl which has a dependency on Inline::Filters. I've found a bug in Filters and fixed it (crudely annotated file attached), how can I go about submitting a patch or fix to become official in CPAN? Thanks! ~ Will Braswell, rperl.org -- Reini Urban http://cpanel.net/ http://www.perl-compiler.org/
