I'm happy to allow anybody to take ownership of any of my CPAN modules. I am not doing much Perl lately and am unlikely to spend much if any time on any of them any time soon.
Thanks, Tye On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:49 PM Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m working on resolving distributions > where multiple people hold first-come permissions on packages that make up > the distribution. One of these is the Algorithm-Diff distribution. It’s a > bit complicated, so please bear with me. > > MJD did the first 5 releases, then NEDKONZ did 6 releases, and then TYEMQ > did 3 releases. > > Curiously, we’re now in the situation where ANDREWC has first-come on > Algorithm::Diff, and NEDKONZ and TYEMQ both have co-maint. > > But ANDREWC has never done a release of Algorithm-Diff; he has > Algorithm::Diff::Apply, so I’m wondering Andrew, at some point did you > include Algorithm::Diff in one of your releases? > > Algorithm::DiffOld was included in earlier releases of Algorithm-Diff, and > still appears in the CPAN Index, because NEDKONZ has old releases in his > author directory. I think we can get rid of this — see below. > > Algorithm::Diff::_impl has first-come assigned to TYEMQ, and was included > in recent releases. But no co-maint. > > Here’s what I suspect are the steps to clarify things: > > - Delete the old releases from NEDKONZ’s author directory on PAUSE. I > can do that for you Ned, if you’re happy with that? > - Once they’re gone, I’ll drop the first-come on Algorithm::DiffOld > - Transfer first-come on Algorithm::Diff from ANDREWC to TYEMQ. > - If NEDKONZ still wants co-maint on this distribution, then add > co-maint for him to Algorithm::Diff::_impl > - I note as well that Algorithm::Diff could do with a bit of > attention. Tye: If you don’t have the time or inclination to maintain it, > would you be happy for me to try and find an appropriate maintainer? There > are quite a few CPAN distributions dependent on Algorithm-Diff, so we’d be > careful on who we’d consider appropriate. > > How does the above sound? > > Thanks, > Neil >
