>>>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:25:45 -0600, brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> >>>>> said:
> This is just an idle thought, so I'm not really proposing anything > concrete. > I tend to do a lot of maintenance where I get other people involved, > but I don't really want to give them upload rights for various reasons. > Or, more specifically, I would want to limit them to uploading only dev > releases. Everybody can upload dev releases without asking. They do not get indexed, no matter if they are maintainer or doing a fork. > I'd also like them to be able to affect the RT queue. Frankly, I do not really understand how RT works. I'm in many RT queues that I cannot imagine how I came in there. There is some hidden gate I don't know of. > Ultimately, I want to reserve a stable distribution release to primary > and co-maintainers as we have it now. > It's just an idea, and it's not a pressing problem that I'm trying to > solve. I was thinking of it more like github's fork and pull request > stuff where there's much less risk in participation with people I don't > know. I'd love to see improvement on that front. Neil Bowers has raised my attention on the matter. I'm not sure if PAUSE needs to be involved for this or if maybe a well organized metacpan or something could play a strong role without having access to pause? -- andreas
