Hi Andreas, sorry for the late response.
On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 09:31:24 Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 07:39:08 +0300, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> said: > > Ahem. That's easier said than done. I had tried to register a few > > namespaces in the past, but I didn't get any reply (inluding not an > > acknowledgement) and none of my namespaces were registered. > > Yes, I know, we've often failed to confirm registrations. But if you > have a specific reason why you *need* the registration, e.g. because you > want to mark modules as abandoned, then please write to modu...@perl.org > and say so, it won't be overheard. OK, thanks for letting me know that this is the case. > > > At the moment on http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/ , I only have two > > registered namespaces and they are both of (pretty early) modules > > that I adopted and maintain. Eventually, I've given up on > > registering namespaces, because the implicit CPAN namespace > > ownership still gives me enough protection from abuse as long as > > I've originated the module[Protect]. > > Of course. The automatic "first-come" registration is the preferred way > of letting the system work without manual intervention. > > I even started once to turn the "first-come" registration into a full > automatic registration but it didn't work as I wanted and then I lost > track on that try. OK. > > > I think that there should be a way to indicate that a module is up-for- > > adoption using, say, META.yml. One option would be to use one of the > > keywords in the keywords key: > > > > http://perl.net.au/wiki/Finding_a_Module_on_CPAN/Definitive_Tags > > Fine by me, as long as the information generated is maintained and > converging. > Sure. I guess I can set up a spec with a list of definitive keywords to be recognised by CPAN interfaces. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > We can say that if one of the keywords/tags is "adoptme" , then we > > should indicate that, and I'm all for introducing integration with > > more definitive tags into search.cpan.org and kobesearch.cpan.org , > > etc. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
