Hi John! On Fri, 01 May 2015 16:10:54 -0500 John M Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com> wrote:
> On 4/30/2015 5:10 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > > I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update > > them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or > > META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response > > (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed that it should be > > removed from CPAN. > > > > I had a look at all the dists that were last released in 1995 and > > wrote up my thoughts on them: > > > > http://neilb.org/2015/04/30/curating-old-releases.html > > > > Where people think dists shouldn’t be removed, I’m happy to try adopt > > them to release minimal updates, where I’m able to. > > > > I’m interested to hear what others think. > > > > Neil > > > > This brought back some frustrated memories. I tried to take over > Math::Brent, for the purpose of upgrading the package and fixing an > error. I managed to locate John Williams, who was fine with it -- but > who then couldn't grant me co-maintenance because PAUSE didn't have him > as the owner (I checked, and all of his modules at that time were > co-owned by another user, although only one had been worked on). > > At that point he didn't feel like proceeding further, and I didn't feel > like making an issue of it, especially if the other user was going to > make the fixes anyway. > > It's now two years later. The other user doesn't seem to have ownership > anymore, but Math::Brent is still has an outstanding bug. > > I'm still interested in being a co-maintainer. For that matter, I'd be > interested in co-maintaining Math::Fortran and Math::Derivative, > although I would probably retire the Math::Fortran name for something > like Math::Util. > I suggest you try asking for a co-maintenance status again. Don't give up so easily - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE . You can also try contacting the other user. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy There are no deletionists. Only Wikipedia articles which Chuck Norris allows to live. (By: joeyadams) — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
