On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:45:33PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:44:33AM -0500, Autarch wrote:
> >
> > 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.
I've not been following this but I'll make one observation:
Regardless of any constraints/conventions/procedures etc relating to
the "CPAN" archive and "PAUSE" upload software, the "Perl Module List"
is a publication produced by Andreas (and nominally myself) and we have
ultimate control over what's in it.
The original conception was that CPAN would be open for uploads of
pretty much anything (we would not want it any other way) but that
entry into the "Perl Module List" would require that the module name,
at least, met some very basic informally (ill)defined criteria.
I hope that's helpful in some way.
Tim.
