On 11-10-14 11:58 AM, brian d foy wrote: > > It's part and parcel of open source. Your alternative is to start from > scratch with no prior work at all. I'd wager that even with your > wasted time on this module, CPAN still saves you an amazing amount of > time overall.
Please don't misunderstand. Of course in general, CPAN has saved me lots of time as there is lots of fully functional, working, quality code on there. I have no beef with quality in general of the code in CPAN, but as always, I have found this exception. > We specifically and purposedly do not impose a quality level on CPAN > uploads. CPAN wants the barrier to participation to be as low as > possible. That's fair enough I suppose. Instead perhaps some kind of quality rating up front would be useful. I do see in a search result (i.e. http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=bounce) the module in question only has one star out of four, but that information right on the main page for the module would be useful. > If you'd like to take over the module, however, we have ways of > handling that. In typical Perl fashion, I'm afraid the code is too obfuscated for me to maintain, assuming I had the time. > But, it looks like Ricardo SIGNES last released a > version in April. Looks like there are also 12 bugs in RT (which I just found, FWIW) that have gone unanswered for as long as 3 years ago. I wish I'd have found this information the first time around. > I don't see any issues from you in the RT queue for > the module, Indeed, as I mentioned above, I just found this RT. But from the array of issues that are already open and unanswered, I would likely just be wasting more time filing a ticket. > and I don't know what else you tried to do to contact the > author. As I mentioned in my previous e-mail, I've e-mailed him a couple of times and gotten about as much response (which is none) as the 12 (still) "new" tickets over the last 3 years. I guess I will just drop this (issue, and the use of this module) and move on. b.
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