On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
> > > Sorry, we do not provide IDs for companies and organisations.
> >
> > Yeah I think I knew this already. I talked about it with Andreas at the
> > last perl conference, and I guess I'll have to discuss it again. There's
> > really no reason for it, when the software being uploaded is open
> > source, IMHO.
>
> I think there is a reason for it. Each file on PAUSE is uploaded by
> *a* person who's ultimately responsible for it. You don't have that with
> files `owned' by a list -- you've thrown away the information of who did
> the upload.
That's a different matter when it's not a list, but a company though. If
you think about it, there's even more responsibility with a company than
with an individual.
> Also, it's not too rare that a list to dissolves, but the last
> person who left the list doesn't know that they're the last one to leave.
> This makes it even harder to pick up dropped packages.
That's a problem regardless of whether it's a person, a company, or a
list. Ultimately it comes down to licensing and trust.
In fact, I could have written personally asking for a PAUSEID called
"AXKIT", and just shared the password. Same issues.
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