Hi Kim, thanks for returning to me. See below for my response.
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:10:42 -0400 Kim Vandry <van...@tzone.org> wrote: > On 2015-09-18 05:14, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Kim! > > > > I'd like to comaintain this CPAN distribution of yours - > > https://metacpan.org/release/gettext , which has been suffering from > > accumulating test failures and bug reports, and other bitrot , and did not > > have a release since 2005. > > Hi Shlomi, > > Thank you for contacting me. > > I apologize for the extremely long period of neglect. Actually I don't > use Perl anymore and have not looked at this module in years. Moreover, > the RT ticket queue for thsi module appears to be owned by someone else, > so I did not get any notification when issues began accumulating. I see. > > For starters, I have created a public git repo for this module, and > back-imported all of the past versions: > > https://github.com/vandry/Perl-Locale-gettext > Thanks! I'll fork it. > Next, I knocked off a few of the easy bugs and created a new release: > > http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PV/PVANDRY/gettext-1.06.tar.gz > Thanks for that. > Some of the remaining bug reports are also straightforward but will > require a little bit more time than I have today or over the upcoming > weekend to conscientiously fix. Others are things like build problems > under operating systems I don't have and can't test for, or else > possibly unreproducible or obsolete. In all honesty, again since I don't > really code in Perl anymore, I'm not likely to work on those. Ah. I can try to fix them. > > You are welcome to comaintain this module or even take it over. How do I > set that up? See http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#add-comaintainer . > > > While I'm in the neighbourhood, I'd like to ask whether you'll agree to > > change the licence of "gettext" to a better one such as the Artistic 2.0 > > licence or to the MIT/X11 licence. See: > > > > http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/#which-licence-same-as-perl > > I see. I'm sure writing "same as Perl" for the license must have been > recommended by somebody at some time or else I probably would not have > done it. Obviously it was a long time ago. I am no legal or licensing > expert. I have no idea what license would be best. > Well, see http://choosealicense.com/ - IANAL (= I am Not a lawyer) either but I believe the X11 licence allows for sub-licensing into any other licence. Regards, Shlomi Fish > Regards, > > Kim Vandry > -kv -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy XSLT is the number one cause of programmers’ suicides since Visual Basic 1.0. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/XSLT/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
