On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:44:33AM -0500, Autarch wrote:
> > That's impossible due to a lack of resources. We are not a funded
> > institution.
>
> Then get more people involved is all I can suggest.
That is not as easy as it sounds.
> > Yes and no. Yes, it would be nice if this list would be available with
> > good advice on a 24/7 basis. No, you do not really need us, you really
> > need cooperation with fellow hackers and you need to get an approved
> > status in the long run (not immediately).
>
> I guess I need to get on that module-authors list (any pointers towards a
> signup. web searches are proving fruitless. and off-topic: where is that
> damn advocacy list?). I've tried discussing some of these issues on
> c.l.p.mod but the newsgroup (and all of them in general) is so cluttered
> with noise and the vast majority of readers are newbies with CGI questions
> that it seemed fairly useless.
The list is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I though www.perl.org had a page with a list of mailing lists, but it
seems to have gone.
Sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should subscribe you.
> > Informally we deal with it such that you do not own the namespace and
> > do not have the final say. We'll seek your advice on everything
> > related to "your" namespace, but other interests may need to be
> > balanced against yours and we will try to never be rude and always be
> > Salomonic. Sometimes this doesn't work out and then we do not sleep
> > well (or not at all), but more often it workes somehow, magically.
>
> That's certainly fine. I guess I'd just want to know if someone wanted to
> upload a bunch of stuff into a namespace I know. The only time that
> someone has wanted to this so far she contacted me first and we discussed
> it before it went to this list, which is obviously the best way to handle
> things.
As we said, nobody "owns" any namespace. But we do ancourage people to
talk if they wish to use a namespace already in use.
Graham.
