Re: Perl CPAN: transfer permissions request.

2019-08-14 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Oleg, I’ve been in touch with Seyhan, who had the first-come indexing permission on the Date namespace. He was happy for the first-come permission to be transferred to you, so I’ve just done that on Seyhan’s behalf. Please remember that there may be people using your Panda::Date module, who

Re: The “Date” namespace on CPAN

2019-08-14 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Seyhan, I’ve just scheduled the deletion of your older release of the HTML-STable distribution, as that was the release that had the Date module. Thank you for your understanding and support on these changes. Cheers, Neil

Re: HTML::Clean need of maintainer

2019-08-19 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Pavel, I’ve been in touch with Paul, and he’s happy for you to have co-maint, so I’ve just given that to you on Paul’s behalf. That’s for taking the module forward Pavel, and thanks to Paul for giving his permission. Cheers, Neil

Re: HTML::Clean need of maintainer

2019-08-20 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Pavel, > It's great news!  I'm ready to make a little update today. Excellent. I look forwarding to seeing all those bugs closed! ;-) Neil

Re: Requesting to co-maintain or adopt the Crypt::X509 module

2019-08-27 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Scott, > Therefore, I respectfully request consideration for adding my PAUSE id > (MRSCOTTY) as co-maintainer or owner of the Crypt::X509 module. I’ve tried a couple of avenues to track down Mike, who has first-come on Crypt::X509. Give me a little while to try this, but if he can’t be found

Re: Request to consideration transferring of ownership for the abandoned DBD::Mock module

2019-08-30 Thread Neil Bowers
We (the PAUSE admins) seem to have been copied into the middle of a thread, but not all of the thread was included. It looks like Jason Cooper (JLCOOPER) would like co-maint on DBD::Mock, but maybe you haven’t been able to contact Mariano Wahlmann (DICHI), who has first-come on that package? Th

Re: Request to consideration transferring of ownership for the abandoned DBD::Mock module

2019-09-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi all, I have just transferred first-come permissions on DBD::Mock (and the other packages in the DBD-Mock distribution) to JLCOOPER. Thanks to Jason for fighting the bitrot, and everyone else for helping to get this resolved. Cheers, Neil

Re: Term::Pager ownership/abandonment

2019-09-11 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Jerrad, > Over the past year I have tried to reach out to the author of Term::Pager. > I furnished several patches with RT tickets > https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Term-Pager > and sent the author email directly, which have been ignored. Today I filed > a ticket on the moribund gith

Re: Requesting to co-maintain or adopt the Crypt::X509 module

2019-09-19 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Scott, I’ve tried to track down Mike Jackson, but with no success. Given that Alexander (AJUNG, copied on this email) has done all but the first release of this distribution anyway, and he’s happy for you to have co-maint, I’ve just given you co-maint, on Mike’s behalf. Thanks for stepping

Re: Requesting to co-maintain or adopt the Crypt::X509 module

2019-09-20 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Scott, > At some point we should consider a longer-term solution for the ownership Once you’ve got a history of (good!) releases under your belt, and enough time has passed, you can come back and request that you be given the first-come permission. We almost never transfer the first-come pe

Re: Small patches for Spreadsheet::ReadSXC - read raw formatted currency values

2019-10-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Max, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’ve just transferred first-come permissions to you, on Christoph’s behalf. Thanks for taking this module on. And thanks to Christoph as well. Cheers, Neil

Re: Minecraft::RCON request perms

2019-10-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Ryan, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’ve also tried to contact Fredrik, but haven’t had any reply yet. Let’s wait another week or so, and then if neither of us has had any response, we’ll give you co-maint. So nudge us at the tail end of next week please, or the start of the following week.

Re: ELIZABETH modules seem to have vanished?

2019-11-06 Thread Neil Bowers
I’m assuming that Liz scheduled deletions of all her releases from her author directory. Are you able to confirm that from logs, Andreas? Can you produce a list of the dists that she recently released, as opposed to a list of all her past releases, which I can get from BackPAN? The more importa

Re: ELIZABETH modules seem to have vanished?

2019-11-13 Thread Neil Bowers
> It was LNATION who volunteered to take over what needs to be taken over. > He contacted us via the modules@ mailing list but the mail has not > arrived yet, so I asked him to send it to me privately and so he did. He > took over a long list of permissions. Thanks. I noticed that at least for Pe

co-maint on Perl CPAN modules?

2019-11-16 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Liz, Greetings to you and Wendy from a grey and cold Marlow! I’m wearing my PAUSE admin hat for this email :-) Recently you deleted your CPAN distributions. Some of them have been adopted by people, and so will be back on CPAN soon, if not already. In some cases you still have co-maint, so

Re: co-maint on Perl CPAN modules?

2019-11-20 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Liz, > > Recently you deleted your CPAN distributions. Some of them have been > > adopted by people, and so will be back on CPAN soon, if not already. > > > > In some cases you still have co-maint, so would get copied in on bug > > reports from RT and other emails like that. Would you like us

Re: Minecraft::RCON perl5 module

2019-11-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fredrik & Ryan, I’ve just transferred first-come permissions on Minecraft::RCON from Fredrik (DEMMY) to Ryan (RJT). Thanks for taking this on Ryan, and thanks Frederik for letting him :-) Cheers, Neil

Re: Adopting Date::Holidays::FR

2019-12-13 Thread Neil Bowers
Salut Jean, > In my on-going endeavour to adopt fun date modules, half-serious date > modules, niche date modules and edge date modules, I have noticed that > Date::Holidays::FR, created by FABPOT, is now assigned to ADOPTME. > > […] > > Now, can you reassign this module to me JFORGET, so I can re

TimeDate and indexing permissions

2020-01-16 Thread Neil Bowers
A number of people volunteered to take on TimeDate and address the breakage. Thank you to all who did. Given this distribution is fairly far up the CPAN River (more than 8700 other CPAN distributions ultimately dependent on it), the PAUSE admins had a discussion on who was the best candidate, i

Re: Why do i see "Why not adopt me?" on my module?

2020-01-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Oleg, Why do i see "Why not adopt me?" on my module? When you adopted the module, you were given co-maint, rather than being transferred the first-come permission. The first-come indexing permission is still assigned to ADOPTME, which is why you’re seeing that on MetaCPAN. I’ll transfer th

Re: CPAN Upload: W/WF/WFANSH/Google-Ads-GoogleAds-Client-2.2.0.tar.gz

2020-02-11 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fan, Did you receive a second email from PAUSE, with the results from the PAUSE Indexer? That should give you some hints as to why your release wasn’t indexed. Cheers, Neil

Re: CPAN Upload: W/WF/WFANSH/Google-Ads-GoogleAds-Client-2.2.0.tar.gz

2020-02-11 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fan, I just noticed something about your release. In Makefile.PL you have:     'VERSION_FROM' => 'lib/Google/Ads/GoogleAds/GoogleAdsClient.pm', And then in that file, I see:     use Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Constants; our $VERSION = ${Google::Ads::GoogleAds::Constants::VERSION}; When I run

Re: CPAN Upload: W/WF/WFANSH/Google-Ads-GoogleAds-Client-2.2.0.tar.gz

2020-02-11 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fan, > when I tried to upload the latest distribution, the PAUSE system told me that > there's a duplication. Is there any way for me to submit the new distribution > and override the previous one? Sorry, I should have been more explicit in my previous email, when I said "bump the version".

Re: CPAN Upload: W/WF/WFANSH/Google-Ads-GoogleAds-Client-2.2.0.tar.gz

2020-02-14 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fan, I uploaded the Google-Ads-GoogleAds-Client 2.2.2 version 3 days before and it seems all tests are fine. May I know how long it usually takes for a distribution to be indexed? In generally takes a lot less than an hour. There’s obviously something not quite right with your distribution.

CDB_File

2020-02-17 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Todd, Matt was happy for you to have the first-come permission on CDB_File, so I’ve just transferred that to you, and dropped the co-maint on HANDOFF. Cheers, Neil

Re: Fwd: Failed: PAUSE indexer report JDEGUEST/DB-Object-0.8.tar.gz

2020-03-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Jacques, > As mentioned previously, I would appreciate if you could allocate me this > unique name space DB::Object. > No one else is currently using it. At the moment the first-come indexing permission on DB::Object is assigned to ISAAC (Issac, who I’ve copied on this email). Issac, are yo

Re: Tree::AVL should be indexed again in PAUSE

2020-03-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Shlomi, > Tree::AVL should be indexed again in PAUSE . Please see > https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues/2273 for more information. > You may wish to see if there are other modules whose indexing was dropped > and/or deploy an automated check for making sure it remains indexed. I

Re: DB::Object

2020-04-01 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Issac, > I never got CC-ed on the original mail (I'm long since unsubscribed to > modules@), but I dug around in PAUSE and think I finally figured out where to > transfer maintainership of the namespace. Yep:     DB::Object,ISAAC,c     DB::Object,JDEGUEST,f Jacques now has control of the n

Re: Maintainer for Net::SAML2

2020-04-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Tim, Apologies for the delay on this. Sadly, and also ironically, for you, the muppet who didn’t get round to setting up a repo and doing the release is also the PAUSE admin responsible for indexing permission changes. I’ll give you co-maint on all the packages in the Net-SAML2 distribution

Re: Maintainer for Net::SAML2

2020-04-07 Thread Neil Bowers
Done!

Re: Not authorized for Saml2Test - test Dancer app for Net::SAML2

2020-04-13 Thread Neil Bowers
> Would you mind adding TIMLEGGE to Saml2Test as well. done

Re: The Math-Matrix distribution

2020-04-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Peter, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m also on this. I’ve copied this reply to the PAUSE admins public list, which is modules@perl.org > I would like to take over the responsibility of the Math-Matrix distribution > / the Math::Matrix module. If you haven’t already read it, the PAUSE O

Giving co-maint or first-come on Business::PayPal

2020-04-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fred, I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat. Gabor Szabo would like to giving PAUSE indexing permissions on Business::PayPal to Josh Rabinowitz who has volunteered to take it forward. But Gabor can’t do that, because you still have the first-come permission. Would you be happy for me

Re: Giving JOSHR rights to upload upload Business-PayPal

2020-04-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Josh, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. Gabor can’t grant you indexing permission, because he doesn’t have the first come permission. See the PAUSE Operating Model[1] if you’re not see what those things mean. Anyway, I’ve emailed Fred Moyer who has control of the Business::PayPal module name, t

Re: Why not adopt me?

2020-05-20 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Sam, > Acme::Addslashes is very, very silly, but it’s a fine joke by my late > colleague James Aitken, which I slightly contributed to at the time, and I’d > be honoured to maintain it in his memory. I’m SKINGTON on PAUSE, and I wrote > Silly::StringMaths so I clearly have no shame. I’ve jus

Re: Why not adopt me?

2020-05-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Vitali, > I'd be willing to adopt [App::bmkpasswd]. My Pause-ID is VPEIL. I’ve just transferred the first-come permissions on both modules in the distribution to you. Cheers, Neil

Re: XML::Sig Why not adopt me?

2020-06-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Tim, > I'm interested in adopting the XML::Sig module. If you can grant me the > privilege I will release the next version. I’ve just given you the first-come indexing permission on XML::Sig — thanks for adopting this. I’ve copied in the original author, who I checked with, and who is happy

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report JPIERCE/IO-Pager-1.03.tgz (fwd)

2020-06-15 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Jerrad, If a module is detected with a decreasing version number, then it won’t be indexed. Let’s have a look at what’s in the CPAN Index[1] for your IO-Pager distribution right now:     IO::Pager               1.03 J/JP/JPIERCE/IO-Pager-1.03.tgz     IO::Pager::Buffered     1.03 J/JP/JPIERC

Re: my new user procedure of password approval email address blocked

2020-06-15 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Wei, Your PAUSE account had been configured so that PAUSE emails were not forwarded to your email address. I have corrected this, and updated your email address. Cheers, Neil

Re: Adopt Business::US::USPS::WebTools

2020-06-16 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Steve, > I see [Business::US::USPS::WebTools] is on the CPAN-Adoptable-Modules list > and is no longer present on CPAN. Can I adopt it? My CPAN ID is SSIMMS. In > case it's helpful for transfer purposes, my GitHub account is ssimms. I’ve just transferred the first-come permissions to you for:

Re: Math::GSL : Status of this distro: Permission missing

2020-06-16 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Håkon, You asked why you got the warnings from PAUSE about missing permissions. This is also why these appeared when looking at your release on MetaCPAN: The root cause was that LETO had the primary indexing permission (known as the first-come indexing permission) on most of the modules in

Re: Adopting Acme-MJD

2020-06-17 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Philippe! > I'm volunteering to adopt the Acme-MJD distribution. I tried emailing PODMASTER, who has first-come on this, but it bounced. I’ve tried contacting PODMASTER before, and failed. Given this was last released in 2003, and PODMASTER hasn’t released anything since 2005, I’ve given you

Re: Fwd: Failed: PAUSE indexer report PRBRENAN/Data-NFA-20200622.tar.gz

2020-06-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Phil, > I am getting the following error when I try to upload a later copy of an > existing module. Please tell me what action I should take to get the latest > version of this module into CPAN? In the PAUSE web interface, there’s a function "Force Reindexing". You can select one or more of

Re: Adopt Net::Azure::StorageClient

2020-06-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dean, Looking at Noda-san’s email, I’m not 100% sure that he was saying he’s happy for you to have co-maint. I *think* he is, but to be sure I’ve asked a Japanese friend to email him for confirmation. Hopefully we’ll get that soon, and we’ll give you co-maint. Cheers, Neil

Re: malware in cpan?

2020-06-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Shawn, Thanks for raising this. > While making a local clone of the cpan repo recently using minicpan I > received the following output: > […] > http://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/P/PH/PHRED/Archive-Zip-1.68.tar.gz: 403 > VirusFound > […] I’m pretty sure this is down to an overzealous of mi

Re: Problem indexing Translate-Fluent [v.0.6.1]

2020-06-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Marco, > I've uploaded Translate-Fluent-v0.6.1.tar.gz to pause and I'm getting an > email saying that the indexer failed to index it. Can you forward the full email you got from PAUSE please? I downloaded your tarball and had a quick look — as you say, it all looks ok. The one thing that I n

Re: Why not adopt me?

2020-06-25 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Avishai, > I saw that PostgreSQL::PLPerl::Call is available for adoption, and I'd love > to release the next version. I see there are a bunch of failures in CPANTS, > and I'd love to get that fixed. The distribution was flagged for ADOPTME, as you know, but I also checked with the original a

Re: PAUSE ID request (FIELD; Greysonn Jack)

2020-06-26 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Alex, PAUSE accounts aren’t automatically approved, they have to be approved by an admin. The name associated with the registration doesn’t appear to be your name, though it is this email address. Plus the rationale given sounded more like an elevator pitch for your referenced web site. In

Re: Failed: PAUSE indexer report CELOGEEK/WWW-Shorten-SCK-0.8.tar.gz

2020-06-26 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Celogeek, Looking at the CPAN Index, it looks like your module was indexed:     WWW::Shorten::SCK   0.8   C/CE/CELOGEEK/WWW-Shorten-SCK-0.8.tar.gz When you get an error message, it’s best to wait an hour or so, and see if the module has been added to the index. You can download the index yo

PAUSE indexing permissions on HTML-Formatter

2020-07-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Nigel, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m emailing you wearing that hat. You had co-maint on most of the modules in the HTML-Formatter distribution, and Jeff Goff had the primary (first-come) indexing permission. You had first-come on HTML::FormatMarkdown, and have done recent releases. A

Tidying up old releases to free up permissions

2020-07-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Igor, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. We have someone who would like to use the Test::DB namespace, but they can’t at the moment because you have the indexing permission on Test::DB and Test::DB::Table. You released these in early versions of your  QBit-Application-Model-DB distribution, and be

Re: Requesting Permissions for Test-DB

2020-07-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Al, > Just nudging the group to get this issue visibility! This distribution, > https://metacpan.org/release/MADSKILL/QBit-Application-Model-DB-0.009, > seemingly accidentally registered the namespace for Test::DB, and others. I'd > like to have primary maintainership permissions for Test::DB

Re: Giving JOSHR rights to upload upload Business-PayPal

2020-07-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Josh, Fred was happy for you to take over Business-PayPal, so I’ve transferred the first-come indexing permission to you. Cheers, Neil

Re: The Math-Matrix distribution

2020-07-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Peter, I would like to take over the responsibility of the Math-Matrix distribution / the Math::Matrix module. I also tried to contact Ulrich, but failed. As a result I’ve given you co-maint on Math::Matrix. Please note: this distribution has 7 other CPAN distributions that depend on it:   

Re: Adopt Alien::Libevent and Alien::Gearman

2020-07-03 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Thibault, > I wanted to push some technical fixes to these modules but they are not > maintained anymore. The owner answered by email directly that he is OK for > giving ownership to somebody else (and he posted a message in that direction > on one of distribution issue tracker : > https://r

Re: Ownership of module Config::File

2020-07-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. THESEAL now has the first-come indexing permission on Config::File, so he is able to grant co-maint to whomever he likes. As part of doing this, I had to re-index the latest release from THESEAL, which is why he got the email about a reindexing. Cheers, Neil

Re: Adopting Data::JavaScript

2020-07-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Michael, > Sorry, my PAUSE id is mstemle. Thanks. I’ve just give you first-come indexing permission on Data::JavaScript. I couldn’t find a github repo for it. Cheers, Neil

Re: Net::Amazon::S3

2020-07-04 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi all, I have given LBROCARD first-come indexing permissions on all packages in Net-Amazon-S3. I then gave BARNEY co-maint on all packages as well. Cheers, Neil

Re: Giving JOSHR rights to upload upload Business-PayPal

2020-07-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Josh, I’m seeing it owned by Gabor in metacpan still. Is this in progress/need I do anything to compete the transfer? I’m not seeing it owned by Gabor on MetaCPAN. Gabor did the most recent release, so he’s shown as the releaser: There have been various discussions over the years about ho

Re: Adoption Request: Alien::Sodium and Crypt::NaCl::Sodium

2020-07-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Chase, I’ve tried to contact the author, to see if he’s happy for you to have co-maint on the modules. I need to give him a bit longer to reply, before handing over the keys. Cheers, Neil

Re: Ed Mohawk would like to adopt your Make module

2020-07-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Kevin, > I don't think the ADOPTME wasn't intentional. Looking back I see a warning > about it from back in 2016 that I guess I ignored; I suspect I didn't realize > I had to remove it when I took over the module. > > That being said, while I planned on working on any reported issues, and any

Re: Adopt Net::Azure::StorageClient

2020-07-05 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dean, JUNNAMA hasn’t replied to our Japanese contact, so I decided that we should go ahead and give you co-maint. While I wasn’t 100% sure that this is what he meant by his email to you, it’s definitely one reading of it. And given it hasn’t had a release since 2013, this seems low risk. I’

Re: doubts about name for a new module (a daemon/service)

2020-07-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Anselmo, > […] as long as CPAN name is concerned, I am dubious about the name, this > daemon works only on Linux, due to inotify system call usage, and it is a > single executable, so I thought about these possible names: > • App::Realtimed > • App::Linux::Realtimed > • Linux::App::Realtimed >

Re: Offering to take over Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl

2020-07-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dave, I’ve just tried another address for Daniel (I dropped the "-cpan" off the email address :-) and asked if he’s ok for you to have co-maint, and that I can make the change on his behalf. It hasn’t bounced, so let’s wait a bit to see if he replies. Given he hasn’t released anything on CP

Re: Why not adopt me?

2020-07-06 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi James, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. > I'm interested in adopting the Memcached::libmemcached module. If you can > grant me the privilege I will release the next version. Thanks for stepping up to help the fight against CPAN bitrot. Typically when a module has been flagged ADOPTME, an adoptio

Re: Offering to take over Ogg::Vorbis::Header::PurePerl

2020-07-07 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dave, Dan Sully (who did the the most recent release, in 2008) was happy for you to get co-maint. I’ve not been able to contact the original author, but given he last released it in 2004, I think we’re ok to give you co-maint. I’ve just given you co-maint. Thank you for fighting CPAN bitrot

Updated your account details

2020-07-07 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Marco, I’ve updated your PAUSE account (MAGO) with your current email address. Cheers, Neil

Re: Still want a PAUSE account?

2020-07-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Zeus, We can’t rename your SEUS pause account to be ZEUS, but we can mark your SEUS account for deletion, and then I’ll create your ZEUS account. Login to PAUSE with your SEUS account, and do the following: • Change your fullname to be "Awaiting Deletion" • Blank out the email address field

Requesting a PAUSE account to use with MetaCPAN

2020-07-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Mary, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m following up on your request for a new PAUSE account. You said that you wanted the PAUSE account for use with MetaCPAN. You can log in to MetaCPAN with a github, twitter, or google account, so you don’t need a PAUSE account for that. PAUSE is the

Requesting a PAUSE account to use with MetaCPAN

2020-07-08 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Oguchi-san, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m following up on your request for a new PAUSE account. You said that you wanted the PAUSE account for use with MetaCPAN. You can log in to MetaCPAN with a github, twitter, or google account, so you don’t need a PAUSE account for that. PAUSE i

Request for a PAUSE account

2020-07-09 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Wenwu, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. Some months back you requested a PAUSE account, mentioning that you were doing some Mojo:: development. Normally requests like this are approved right away. But you requested a PAUSE id of HUAWEI, which is a trademark of the Huawei company. If you’d stil

Re:Request for a PAUSE account

2020-07-10 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, Can you submit a new request for a CARELINE account please? Once you’ve done that, I’ll approve it promptly. Thanks, Neil

Re: String::Util: transferring maintenance

2020-07-21 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Miko, > Please set BAKERSCOT as the primary maintainer for String::Util. Thank you. I’ve just transferred the first-come indexing permission to Scott. You’ve been given co-maint; if you don’t even want that, let Scott know and he can drop your co-maint :-) Cheers, Neil

CPAN: Ownership of the XML-XPathScript modules

2020-07-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m emailing you wearing that hat. The XML-XPathScript distribution was originally created by Matt; Dominique then did 5 releases; since 2005 Yanick has done 24 releases. Chris (PERIGRIN) doesn’t seem to have done any releases, but he has the first-come inde

CPAN - should Tie-Tools be ADOPTME?

2020-07-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Jonas, I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat. The Tie-Tools CPAN distribution has first-come permissions given to ADOPTME apart from the lead module, Tie::Tools. I’m guessing that you mean for the distribution to be available for adoption, but wanted to check rather than just assume a

CPAN — resolve the fractured ownership of Archive-Zip

2020-07-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Dear CPAN authors SMPETERS, ADAMK, NEDKONZ, and PHRED, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m sorting out distributions that have fractured ownership, as PAUSE tries to not let this happen now[1]. Archive-Zip is such a distribution: SMPETERS has first-come on the lead package, Archive::Zip; ADAMK

Re: CPAN: Ownership of the XML-XPathScript modules

2020-07-24 Thread Neil Bowers
Smashing! I have transferred PERIGRIN’s first-come on the lead package, so YANICK now holds all the aces, and the dist falls off my hit list. Thanks all, Neil

CPAN: Rationalising first-come permissions on Alien-Build

2020-07-26 Thread Neil Bowers
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: fi

Re: CPAN: Rationalising first-come permissions on Alien-Build

2020-07-26 Thread Neil Bowers
> 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

CPAN - ownership of packages in Bootylicious distribution

2020-07-26 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi VTI and OLEG, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m working on sorting out situation where the first-come permissions associated with a distribution are shared between 2 or more people. These days PAUSE tries to ensure that the lead author retains first-come on all packages, regardless of who

CPAN - rationalising first-come permissions on XML-Feed

2020-07-26 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi CPAN authors BTROTT, MSTROUT, SIMONW, and DAVECROSS, I’m one of the PAUSE admins; I’m working through distributions where multiple people have first-come permissions on different packages. These days PAUSE tries to ensure that the lead author retains first-come on all packages, regardless of

Re: CPAN: Ownership of the XML-XPathScript modules

2020-07-27 Thread Neil Bowers
> Yeah totally fine by me. Do I need to do anything in pause? Nope, it’s all been sorted now — thanks. Neil

Re: CPAN - should Tie-Tools be ADOPTME?

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Jonas, Thanks for getting back to me — I have now made all of Tie-Tools owned by ADOPTME. So now when you look, you’ll see that all of your distributions have clean single ownership. Cheers, Neil

CPAN: your first-come permission on Email::Store::Addressing

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Casey, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m working through cases where a distribution has multiple people holding the first-come indexing permission on one or more packages in a distribution. PAUSE tries to not let this happen nowadays, but there are historical cases to resolve. One such i

Re: CPAN — ownership of CGI and the other modules in the CGI distribution

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Lincoln, > I'd be happy for Lee to take over primary ownership and maintenance of CGI. Great — I’ve transferred first-come permissions on all packages to LEEJO. You now have co-maint on them. > Also, it would be very kind of you to schedule the deletion of the old CGI > releases. I’ll sched

Re: CPAN: your first-come permission on Email::Store::Addressing

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
> I’m comfortable giving up perms or having co-maint, whichever is easiest for > you. :-) Thanks. It was not quite the easiest, but the cleanest, to drop all your perms on that package, since you didn’t have perms on the others. Cheers, Neil

Re: CPAN: your first-come permission on Email::Store::Addressing

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Done! thanks.

CPAN — ADOPTME on VCS distribution?

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Leon, The VCS distribution has ADOPTME with first come on the VCS package itself, but you have first-come in the other packages that make up the VCS dist. Can I just check that you meant for distribution to be up for distribution please? If so I’ll transfer all the others to ADOPTME as well.

CPAN - making ownership of Test-Deep distribution consistent

2020-07-28 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Fergal, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m working on resolving situations where two or more people own parts of a distribution. PAUSE tries hard now to make sure this doesn’t happen, but there are some historical cases that we’re tidying up. You original released Test::Deep, but since 201

Re: CPAN - making the first-come permissions on CPU-Z80-Assembler consistent

2020-07-29 Thread Neil Bowers
> Yes, that's fine by me. Thank you — I’ve just transferred first-come to PSCUST. Cheers, Neil

RE: CPAN — ADOPTME on VCS distribution?

2020-07-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Ed, > I’ll take the first-come (it’s been a month for that!) – thanks for the > checking! Great — I’ve just given you first-come on all packages, and dropped ADOPTME’s co-maints. Cheers, Neil

CPAN - first-come permissions on Pod-Markdown

2020-07-29 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Randy, Marcel Grünauer said that he was happy for you to have first-come permission on Pod::Markdown, so now you have first-come on both modules in the Pod-Markdown distribution. Cheers, Neil

Re: CPAN — resolve the fractured ownership of Archive-Zip

2020-07-30 Thread Neil Bowers
Thanks all. I’ve transferred all first-come permissions to PHRED. If nothing else it means that there’s a single person who can give out co-maint bits, or hand over the reins. Cheers, Neil

CPAN - resolving first-come permissions on Algorithm-Diff

2020-07-30 Thread Neil Bowers
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

Re: Hash-Merge permissions

2020-07-30 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Jens, > The Co-Maint of Hash-Merge told me today he has no permissions to upload a > new distribution and I took a look, the permissions are entirely gone. > > Can someone explain this? Can you please restore the correct permissions? I have a copy of 06perms.txt from earlier this month, and

Re: Hash-Merge permissions

2020-07-31 Thread Neil Bowers
I’ve added the permissions back as they were: % perms Hash::Merge Hash::Merge,DMUEY,c Hash::Merge,HERMES,c Hash::Merge,MNEYLON,c Hash::Merge,REHSACK,f I added a comment about this on the ticket for #348 as well. Neil

XML-Feed permissions cleanup

2020-07-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Matt, You did one release of XML-Feed in 2011, 0.44, between SIMONW’s releases and DAVECROSS’s. Looking at the permissions matrix for XML-Feed (first-come to the left of the bar), it looks like you added XML::Feed::Enclosure in your release: Are you happy for me to transfer your first-com

CPAN - resolving split ownership of perl-ldap distribution

2020-07-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Graham & Peter I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m sorting out situations where CPAN distributions have split ownership, as it can result in parts of releases not getting indexed, and then when transferring permissions, modules get missed. PAUSE tries to not let this happen now, but there a

CPAN - ownership of the Git-Wrapper distribution

2020-07-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Hans, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m sorting out situations where CPAN distributions have split ownership, as it can result in parts of releases not getting indexed, and then when transferring permissions, modules get missed. PAUSE tries to not let this happen now, but there are some h

Re: CPAN - ownership of the Git-Wrapper distribution

2020-07-31 Thread Neil Bowers
Thanks Dieter — I’ve transferred all first-comes to GENEHACK, and you now have co-maint on all packages, along with PERIGRIN. Cheers, Neil

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