Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread Neil Bowers
> I don't believe that any distribution should be moved from CPAN to backpan > without the consent of the author or maintainer unless he or she is dead. I agree. I’d thought I’d roughly said that in my blog post, but while the intention was there, the clarity wasn’t. I’ll update the post later.

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Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread David Golden
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:46 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > > I don't believe that any distribution should be moved from CPAN to backpan > without the consent of the author or maintainer unless he or she is dead. +1 Who knows what on DarkPAN is using it? I think removal always needs to be intent

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Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report ETHER/Acme-Version-Hex-0x1p-10.tar.gz

2015-04-30 Thread David Golden
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Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread James E Keenan
On 04/30/2015 06:10 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed

Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-04-30 Thread Neil Bowers
I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed that it should be removed from CPAN. I had a

Re: [rt.cpan.org #98340] Release

2015-04-30 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Harlan Lieberman-Berg writes: > Unfortunately, this bug is definitely extant. Egg on my face -- looks like you did indeed make the same fix as was in the patch in the newer versions. > I think the threads.t test is broken enough that it simply should be > removed entirely... This is still an i

Re: [rt.cpan.org #98340] Release

2015-04-30 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Boris Zentner writes: > I think those bugs are fixed long ago. If not please create issues on > github or here patches are welcome.But I think everything is already > fixed in the latest release. Hi Boris, Unfortunately, this bug is definitely extant. I've applied one patch in this thread that

Re: Fw: Re: [rt.cpan.org #98340] Release

2015-04-30 Thread Florian Ragwitz
I had given Boris (on Cc, hi Boris!) co-maint a while back so he could release some of his changes, which he did. Boris, do you think getting these fixes released is something you could help with? Would you mind more co-maintainers being added? I certainly have no objections to that as the orig

Re: [rt.cpan.org #98340] Release

2015-04-30 Thread Matt S Trout
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 04:47:25PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > FLORA is primary maint, now, so shouldn't this go through him? Huh, I wasn't aware there was already an attempted adoption - there doesn't seem to've been a release yet. rafl, whaddya want us to do? -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Syst

Re: [rt.cpan.org #98340] Release

2015-04-30 Thread David Golden
FLORA is primary maint, now, so shouldn't this go through him? On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Matt S Trout wrote: > If nobody has any objections, I'll grant co-maint of this module to > both ADOPTME and HARLAN tomorrow. > > If people think I should be doing something else, please make suggesti

Re: [rt.cpan.org #98340] Release

2015-04-30 Thread Matt S Trout
If nobody has any objections, I'll grant co-maint of this module to both ADOPTME and HARLAN tomorrow. If people think I should be doing something else, please make suggestions. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:09:33PM -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm willing to adopt this

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