So I guess the answer is no :) Thanks for you comments, appreciated.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Pedro Melo <m...@simplicidade.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose the Author:: namespace as a place for all of > our personal modules that don't fit into any other namespace, for > public experimental modules, and for author metadata. > > Each author would release under his own PAUSE ID. My own namespace > would become Author::MELO and my modules would be placed under that. > > Modules under the Author namespace would be available to include as a > dependency on each author projects, but not under other CPAN > distributions outside the same Author namespace. If you wish to use a > Author module, you should work with the author to move it to one of > the current namespaces. > > I think this would allow us to remove a lot of per-user modules that > have popped up in the past (stuff like Task::Belike::* and Dist::Zilla > Author plugin bundles). > > It would also open the possibility to include author metadata in the > form of a module. For example, one module I want to release is > Author::MELO::ContributingPolicy that keeps the text I want to add to > all my modules POD with instructions on how to best contribute to my > modules. > > Other interesting concept to be explored would be a > Author::MELO::Preferences which would give access to some personal > information (what author.json currently has), and provide hints to > other modules (which browser I prefer, or which bug tracking system I > rather use, and so forth). > > Thanks for your time, > -- > Pedro Melo > @pedromelo > http://www.simplicidade.org/ > http://about.me/melo > xmpp:m...@simplicidade.org > mailto:m...@simplicidade.org -- Pedro Melo @pedromelo http://www.simplicidade.org/ http://about.me/melo xmpp:m...@simplicidade.org mailto:m...@simplicidade.org
