Sure, as far as I'm concerned, knock yourself out! On Sat 1 Aug 2020, 12:42 Neil Bowers, <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m working through distributions that > have split ownership, typically caused because releasers with co-maint > added new packages, and in the past PAUSE would give them first-come on the > new package. PAUSE now tries to ensure consistent permissions, so I’m > working through the historical cases. B-Utils is one of them. > > A regular rogues gallery[*] of CPAN authors have released B-Utils over the > years, not all of whom had or still have indexing permissions. And ABERGMAN > has first-come on B::Utils itself, but doesn’t seem to have ever done a > release. Here’s the permissions on the two packages: > > first-come | co-maints > > B::Utils ABERGMAN | CLKAO ETHER JJORE SMUELLER > B::Utils::OP CLKAO | ETHER JJORE > > Who is the best person to take first-come on both packages? JJORE has done > the most releases in the last 10 years, and ETHER has done the last 2. > PAUSE’s principle is to honour the permissions on the lead module, so > ABERGMAN also has a claim. Is he the shadowy power behind the releasers > throne? > > Options: > > 1. Give ABERGMAN first-come on B::Utils::OP, and CLKAO will move to > co-maint > 2. Give JJORE first-come on both, possibly dropping ABERGMAN entirely, > since honestly, what does he bring to the party? > 3. Give ETHER first-come on both > > > And SMUELLER did his releases in the mists of time, before CLKAO added > B::Utils::OP, which is why he doesn’t have co-maint on that package. Shall > I just drop your co-maint Steffen? > > Cheers, > Neil > > [*] that is the collective noun, right? >
