(resend - first had messed up quoted email and I forgot to address Neil 
directly)

Hello Neil, hello PAUSE admins,

I am SCHWIGON on PAUSE.

I am quite certain to not get an answer from the author YAPPO about the module 
"String::Diff" in attached email, as he is inactive since 2015, his blog and 
homepage is dead and he hasn't participated in any of his RT and github tickets.

Therefore I kindly ask you to give me

- Steffen Schwigon
... https://metacpan.org/author/SCHWIGON
... https://github.com/renormalist

CO-MAINTAINER premissions to

- String::Diff

The module is a dependency to others and stumbled into several deprecations.

The upcoming changes were already collected by others on RT and github and I 
already prepared everything for PAUSE upload in

https://github.com/pplu/p5-String-Diff/compare/release/0.08...renormalist:p5-String-Diff:release/0.08#diff-bbd4b6a86bc65b6ac8e79e97afc61499158edb40f7bb404c70637b46d80a7ad2

In the attached email to the author I tried to provide examples why I think I 
am qualified and will be careful.


Kind regards,
Steffen Schwigon


PS: I crawled back from a multi-year low-energy opensource hiatus and there is 
a chance I ask for more CO-MAINT permissions, at least on low-hanging fruits. I 
try to be not this verbose the next time in order to not stress your reading 
time.

--
Steffen Schwigon
steffen.schwi...@gmx.de


> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. November 2024 um 13:35
&gt; Von: "Steffen Schwigon" <steffen.schwi...@gmx.de>
&gt; An: yappo+c...@shibuya.pl, ya...@shibuya.pl, ya...@cpan.org
&gt; Betreff: String::Diff help/co-maintainer?
&gt;
&gt; Hello Kazuhiro Osawa,
&gt;
&gt; Short version: I'm asking if you could need or accept help on a CPAN distro
&gt;
&gt;  - String::Diff
&gt;
&gt; to apply some fixes to get it installing with newer Perl versions.
&gt;
&gt; If you want, you could give me
&gt;
&gt;  Steffen Schwigon
&gt;  https://metacpan.org/author/SCHWIGON
&gt;  https://github.com/renormalist
&gt;
&gt; Co-Maintainership on PAUSE to all files under that namespace or reply with 
some "That's ok for me" to this E-Mail and I will take care of all the details 
with PAUSE admins.
&gt;
&gt; In this case I am coming from this ticket:
&gt;
&gt;  - https://github.com/yappo/p5-String-Diff/issues/7
&gt;  - 
https://github.com/neo1ite/p5-String-Diff/commit/83f67e5d60d7e6cab9cf38b6f2c8621526e37a9b
&gt;
&gt; Long version:
&gt;
&gt; In the context of maintaining my own Perl projects on CPAN I occasionally 
trip into other dependencies which don't work for newer Perls. When the author 
is too busy I sometimes help out with distro maintenance, usually applying 
existing patches from RT.
&gt;
&gt; I used to be involved in CPANs QA efforts (CPAN testing, attend Perl QA 
hackathons, benchmarking, distroprefs, Test'n'TAP tooling) and handle several 
own distros myself.
&gt;
&gt; When taking Co-Maintainerships to keep modules running, I will usually 
create/clone a repo on github, replicate what exists and only apply the bare 
minimum of patches found on bug trackers, in the same way the module did it.
&gt;
&gt; Only in rare cases where I understand the actual topic I sometimes also 
become the primary maintainer for new features. Sometimes I pass it on to the 
next experts (like with Net::SSH::Perl) or only help do the upload/distro work.
&gt;
&gt; You can see earlier examples here:
&gt;
&gt; - https://metacpan.org/dist/Test-Fixture-DBIC-Schema
&gt;   https://github.com/renormalist/Test-Fixture-DBIC-Schema
&gt; - Net::SSH::Perl
&gt;   https://metacpan.org/release/SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.14
&gt;   https://metacpan.org/release/SCHWIGON/Crypt-OpenSSH-ChachaPoly-0.02
&gt;   https://metacpan.org/dist/Crypt-OpenBSD-Blowfish
&gt; - https://metacpan.org/dist/TAP-Formatter-HTML
&gt; - https://metacpan.org/dist/TAP-Harness-Archive
&gt; - https://metacpan.org/dist/Class-MethodMaker
&gt; - https://metacpan.org/dist/LockFile-Simple
&gt; - https://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode
&gt;
&gt; This is just to give you some trust that I will try to not screw up your 
module.
&gt;
&gt; Thanks for reading this far :-)
&gt; and thanks for your modules on CPAN.
&gt;
&gt; Kind regards,
&gt; Steffen Schwigon
&gt; --
&gt; Steffen Schwigon
&gt; steffen.schwi...@gmx.de</steffen.schwi...@gmx.de>

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