Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-28 Thread Linda W
Steffen Mueller wrote: On 11/21/2011 09:58 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: Maybe instead of just this Covenant, we have a number of Ownership / Maintenance statements, one of which is the one I proposed, but another of which would something along the lines of: If you put something on CPAN and don

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-26 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Linda W wrote: > Steffen Mueller wrote: > >> On 11/21/2011 09:58 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: >>> >>> Maybe instead of just this Covenant, we have a number of Ownership / >>> Maintenance statements, one of which is the one I proposed, but >>> another of which would somet

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-21 Thread Steffen Mueller
On 11/21/2011 09:58 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: Maybe instead of just this Covenant, we have a number of Ownership / Maintenance statements, one of which is the one I proposed, but another of which would something along the lines of: This is my module, I don't want it handing over unless I've either

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-21 Thread Jerome Quelin
hi, On 11/11/20 17:00 +0100, Steffen Mueller wrote: > >In the discussion on module-authors, and talking to people at the London > >Perl Workshop (LPW): about 60% thought it was a good idea, 20% a bad idea, > >and > >20% indifferent. Most of the 'bad' being "it works that way already". > > Sadly,

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Steffen, >>I hereby give modules@perl.org permission to grant co-maintainership >>to [% distribution %], if all the following conditions are met: > > Refer to the "PAUSE administrators" instead of modules@perl.org? A mailing > list is a weird thing to carry authority. :) Ah, that's t

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-20 Thread Steffen Mueller
Hi Neil, thank you for your work! I think it's very important. On 11/17/2011 09:13 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: A week ago I posted a proposal for a voluntary pledge, which CPAN module authors could sign up to. With Bill Ward's tweak to the wording, the discussion on per-distribution stating, and gen

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-18 Thread Burak Gürsoy
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:55:09 -0500 > Von: Yanick Champoux > An: Neil Bowers > CC: module-auth...@perl.org, modules@perl.org > Betreff: Re: The CPAN Covenant > On 11-11-17 03:08 PM, yan...@babyl.dyndns.org wrote: > > Dist:

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-18 Thread yanick
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:06:54PM +0100, "Burak G?rsoy" wrote: > I think something like this must be standalone like Software::License. > Attaching it to Dist::Zilla limits the audience heavily. Very good point. I'll extract the pledge wording itself to a separate distribution (CPAN::Cov

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-17 Thread Yanick Champoux
On 11-11-17 03:08 PM, yan...@babyl.dyndns.org wrote: Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Covenant coming to CPAN real soon (or even sooner if somebody beats me to it:-) ). Tadah! https://github.com/yanick/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Covenant Caveat maximus emptor: this should only be considered a p

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-17 Thread Bill Ward
Sounds good to me ... I hereby accept this covenant for the modules I maintain, present and future, until such time as I indicate otherwise in email to modules@perl.org On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Neil Bowers wrote: > A week ago I posted a proposal for a voluntary pledge, which CPAN > modu

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-17 Thread yanick
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 08:13:45AM +, Neil Bowers wrote: > A week ago I posted a proposal for a voluntary pledge, which CPAN > module authors could sign up to. With Bill Ward's tweak to the wording, > the discussion on per-distribution stating, and generalising the RT point: > >I hereby gi

The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-17 Thread Neil Bowers
A week ago I posted a proposal for a voluntary pledge, which CPAN module authors could sign up to. With Bill Ward's tweak to the wording, the discussion on per-distribution stating, and generalising the RT point: I hereby give modules@perl.org permission to grant co-maintainership to [% dist