Yes, please assign them to Graham. If you'd rather I do it I can but I'll
need a poke in a day or so.

Cheers,
Joel

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 11:29 AM Graham Ollis <plice...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Neil,
>
> Thanks for reaching out on this.
>
> Indeed, today's Alien-Build is a combination of Alien::Build* which I
> originated, and some Alien::Base* modules which originated from Joel as
> Alien-Base.  (There are also Alien::Base* modules in
> Alien-Base-ModuleBuild, which was spun off of Alien-Base when the other
> Alien::Base modules were merged into Alien-Build).
>
> My opinion, and if Joel agrees, is it would be best to make me first-come
> on all the modules in Alien-Build, keep JBERGER, ETJ and ZMUGHAL as
> co-maint (adding new modules that they do not already have co-main to).
> Although only Joel and myself have made releases, at different points all
> of these people were actively working on Alien-Build related stuff, and I
> prefer for them to decide whom should take over if for some reason I cannot
> work on it, without the intervention of the PAUSE admins.  I think CHM
> should be removed as co-maint as he hasn't in practice contributed as  much
> to the project.  If Joel feels strongly about keeping CHM I am fine with
> that too, though this is not my preference.
>
> Graham
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:12 AM Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi PLICEASE and JBERGER,
>>
>> I’m wearing my PAUSE admin hat, and emailing you about the first-come
>> indexing permissions on packages in the Alien-Build distribution. I’m
>> looking into distributions which have more than one person holding
>> first-come[1]
>>
>> Most of the packages have a single permission: first-come for PLICEASE.
>>
>> But there are two with first-come assigned to JBERGER, and co-maint to
>> CHM, ETJ, PLICEASE, and ZMUGHAL: Alien::Base and Alien::Base::PkgConfig.
>>
>> Are we ok to transfer first-come to PLICEASE? He’d then have first-come
>> on all packages, which means he’d be able to give co-maint to someone for
>> the whole distribution, or transfer first-come.
>>
>> Normally this sort of rationalisation is straightforward, but my brain
>> has Alien::* in the "can be weird shit going on" pigeon hole … But it could
>> just be that Alien::Base used to be a separate distribution, but it got
>> absorbed into Alien-Build.
>>
>> And if I do transfer the first-come, should I drop co-maint on those two
>> packages for the other people?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Neil
>>
>> [1] https://neilb.org/2020/07/24/inconsistent-permissions.html
>>
>
>
> --
>     after now,
>     graham
>

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