Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Scott Elcomb
IMO, reply-to-all is an extra step. Sorry 'bout that. On 8/14/06, Scott Elcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/14/06, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ovid wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > No names, but if you happen to be sitting on a module which other people depend on and you're not go

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Jonathan Rockway
Is there software that needs to be written? I could write a small Catalyst application to handle this, if someone is willing to host it. Regards, Jonathan Rockway > 1. Place for current module authors/maintainers who wish to transfer > maintenance of certain modules to so indicate. > > 2. Pla

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread James E Keenan
Ovid wrote: > Hi all, > > No names, but if you happen to be sitting on a module which other people > depend on and you're not going to fix bugs, give up the module, offer someone > co-maintainership or figure out *something* which gives users a way out. I > realize that not everyone has a pile

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Jonathan Rockway
BTW, I have some free time to devote to maintaining modules. So, if you want to unload one, let me know. Although, for some reason I doubt that anyone who reads module-authors wants to give up their modules :) Regards, Jonathan Rockway Ovid wrote: > Hi all, > > No names, but if you happen to be

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Ovid # on Monday 14 August 2006 03:40 am: >figure out *something* which gives users a way out. Maybe if there were a universally accessible subversion repository for all of the CPAN? http://scratchcomputing.com/developers/svn4cpan/ All we need are some willing victims for a hackfest i

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Dmitri Tikhonov
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 10:18 -0400, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > * Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-14T07:00:10] > > e.g. a big red sign on search.cpan.org next to each module that has open > > bugs > > in RT and has not been updated for the past 6 months... > > I use this script to find bugs i

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 14, 2006, at 9:18 AM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-14T07:00:10] e.g. a big red sign on search.cpan.org next to each module that has open bugs in RT and has not been updated for the past 6 months... I use this script to find bugs in mail-handling c

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-14T07:00:10] > e.g. a big red sign on search.cpan.org next to each module that has open bugs > in RT and has not been updated for the past 6 months... I use this script to find bugs in mail-handling code or code I maintain. http://rjbs.manxome.org/hack

Re: Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
Maybe if there was some alerting system e.g. a big red sign on search.cpan.org next to each module that has open bugs in RT and has not been updated for the past 6 months... I don't know. Gabor

Give up your modules!

2006-08-14 Thread Ovid
Hi all, No names, but if you happen to be sitting on a module which other people depend on and you're not going to fix bugs, give up the module, offer someone co-maintainership or figure out *something* which gives users a way out. I realize that not everyone has a pile of free time to constant