Benjamin R. Ginter writes:
> I'm happy to see that you uploaded NetPacket 0.03 yesterday. Even
> though I haven't seen any public flames (yet), it seems I have made a
> major mistake wrt CPAN etiquette. For trampling on your namespace, I
> apologize.
No worries. I'm actually surprised that the CPAN uploader system
allowed you to do it. I thought there was supposed to be some permissions
system in place.
> While I did try to find you and speak with you before submitting the
> update, I have since discovered that I just didn't look in the right
> places.
>
> o I sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you remember me
> e-mailing you almost a year ago about this same bug *with* a patch?
It's been a long time and I get a lot of mail. (-:
> o I tracked down your home page and found there were no updates since
> the beginning of 2000.
>
> o The last post I could find from you in the Deja usenet archive was
> from November of 1999.
>
> o I asked in #perl on EFNet and no one knew how to contact you.
I do admit to being rather slack given that quite a few people
have sent mail about various bugs in Netpacket. Unfortunately it
wasn't something that I used regularly anymore so I didn't manage
to find much time for it. Netpacket is now on sourceforge which
will hopefully make it easier for other people to commit stuff
and/or take over maintainership of the project if that is necessary.
You were probably justified in releasing something given that it
has been a couple of years since I did, and how unresponsive I've
been.
> I was a bit disappointed that you removed every reference of me from
> version 0.03. Thought you would at least keep my name and e-mail address
> in the AUTHOR section of NetPacket.pm or TCP.pm. It's not a big deal but
> would have been a nice touch.
Sorry - I'll update the changes/readme file to include a list of
contributors for the next release. Unfortunately I didn't keep
your original mails. )-: I now have a habit of committing changes
with the email address of the patcher in the CVS message to
remind me where the patch came from.
> Benjamin R. Ginter (BRG)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey, I remember this email address bouncing before - odd...
Regards,
Tim.
