Since July I’ve been trying to track down Dan Brumleve (BRUMLEVE), to resolve one of the permissions conflicts:
>>>> I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving conflicts caused by >>>> PAUSE now considering package names case insensitively. This has left us >>>> with some situations where two or more people are owners of namespaces >>>> previously considered distinct, and now considered the same. >>>> >>>> You are owner of the “pragmatic” namespace, and have a “pragmatic” module >>>> as part of your wildproto distribution, last released in 2003. This now >>>> conflicts with the “Pragmatic” module, owned by BINKLEY. >>>> >>>> I noticed that your distribution hasn’t worked with any version of Perl >>>> since 5.12.1, and doesn’t work on most older Perls either: >>>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=wildproto+1.0.1 >>>> <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=wildproto+1.0.1> >>>> >>>> Given that, I wonder if the easiest way to resolve this would be to delete >>>> wildproto from CPAN and drop your permissions on the relevant namespaces. >>>> Would you be happy for me to do this on your behalf? >>> >>> Are you happy for your wildproto distribution to be deleted from CPAN, and >>> then your permissions on the “pragmatic” namespace dropped? >> Are you happy for me to delete your wildproto distribution and drop the >> associated permissions? > > Given I haven’t had any reply, I will go ahead and drop the PAUSE permissions > at the weekend, but will leave the two releases of it in place, unless you > say you’re happy for me to delete those as well. I ended up signing up for a trial of the paid service on LinkedIn, as that seemed to be the only place I could track him down. His reply was “yes it is fine with me remove it. I doubt my packages have any users”. Here’s a screenshot showing the InMail response: http://i.imgur.com/McPwSue.png <http://i.imgur.com/McPwSue.png> So I am now going to schedule deletion of the wildproto distribution, and drop his permissions. Cheers, Neil
