Hi Eric,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m resolving situations where there’s a clash
between permissions affecting two or more distributions.
In the past PAUSE treated "Types" and "types" as two different distributions.
You used "Types" in your Net-ICal distribution, and that now clashes with
Hi Marc,
> I accept your generous offer - I only released those modules as a
> temporary workaround. The only reason I didn't delete them yet is because
> I didn't track which ones have been superseded, so deleting conflicting
> ones is the right thing here.
Thanks — I’ve just scheduled the deleti
Hi Ishigaki-san,
Your Perl-PrereqScanner-NotQuiteLite distribution has an old release appearing
in the index (0.50), because that was the last release that included package
author::Util.
There are no permissions on that package though, which is why my permissions
integrity scanner is complaini
Thanks Sawyer, Leon, Tux, and Karl.
I’ve just transferred first-come permissions on MIME-Base64 to P5P, and given
Chase (CAPOEIRAB) co-maint.
Neil
Hi Dobrica,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through situations where ownership of
modules in a distribution is split between two or more people, and where there
are permissions clashes.
In early releases of the Fuse distribution — between 0.06 and 0.14 — the module
test::helper was in
Hi Damien,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m looking at CPAN distributions which have split
ownership, and trying to resolve them, as PAUSE now tries to ensure that
distributions keep consistent ownership, regardless of who adds modules to them.
The MooX-LvalueAttribute distribution has two modu
Hi dams,
> yes please go ahead and transfer my first-come to MARCC.
Thanks — I’ve just transferred your first-come on
Method::Generate::Accessor::Role::LvalueAttribute to MARCC.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Christian,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m resolving situations where there’s a clash
between permissions affecting two or more distributions. Your
CGI-XMLApplication distribution is one of these.
In previous releases you included modules "example1" and "minimalapp". These
clashed with som
Hi Audrey,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through situations where distributions
have split ownership, and/or have permissions conflict with other
distributions. Your i18n distribution is one of these, caused by earlier
release(s) from AUTRIJUS that contained i18n::var and i18n::strin
Hi Chris,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where there is
split ownership of a distribution, and along the way also tidying up situations
where old releases of distributions are appearing in the CPAN Index.
The MP3-Info distribution is one of these. It used to co
Hi Tobias,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through distributions that have
missing or split permissions.
Your Mojolicious-Plugin-InputValidation is one of these. You’ve done all
releases, but you don’t have indexing permissions on some of the packages. I
suspect this is related to a c
Hi Tiago,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through distributions that have
missing or split permissions.
Your Net-Nessus is one of these. You did a release in 2004, presumably after
user JWIED gave you permission. It looks like he missed one module.
To resolve this, I’m about to force
Aha. I should have looked at your Makefile.PL — you have no_index on most of
the IV_* packages in your dist, but the list doesn’t include IV_BOOL. I’m
guessing that’s because you added IV_BOOL in the 0.09 release. Do you want to
add IV_BOOL to the no_index list?
Those other packages are still a
Hi Chritresh,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m looking at distributions on CPAN that have
permissions anomalies, or have other issues related to not adhering to CPAN
conventions.
In 2007 you released your link_NCBI distribution, which has a collection of
modules and scripts, used at NCBI. One
Hi Aristotle,
I’m writing this wearing my PAUSE admin hat. I’m working through CPAN
distributions where two or more people have indexing permissions, and related
issues.
The Interpolation distribution is one of these. You have first-come on the
Interpolation module itself, but JENDA has first-
Hi Galen,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I working through situations where there are
permissions oddities with CPAN distributions, or conflicts between two or more
distributions.
This affects your MARC/XML releases. It looks like this is what happened in the
past:
• User BBIRTH first released
Hi Torsten,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where CPAN
distributions have ownership split between two or more people, or missing
indexing permissions, and various related issues.
Net-FTPServer is one such curious case. Three different people released it over
th
Hi Michael,
I’m going to reindex your XPlanner distribution, which will give you
permissions on the packages that are missing any. And I’ll add HANDOFF to those
as well, so that everything’s at least consistent.
And if you want me to just set them all as ADOPTME, let me know, and I’ll do
that
> I’ve given JENDA first-come and dropped my permissions. One less critter
> hanging around in my rescue shelter.
Heh. Thanks for that.
> It was essentially case (a), from when MJD gave up his first-come on
> everything he owned.
Ah. I saw the one MJD co-maint and wondered how that fit into the
Hi Jochen,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m sorting out situations where CPAN
distributions have split ownership, or missing permissions. There are a number
of these situations involving your account.
The quick version of this email: if you are no longer maintaining your CPAN
distributions, yo
Hi Xan,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m looking into situations where a CPAN
distribution has split ownership.
Perl-Critic-Policy-CompileTime is one of these: you (XAN) have the first-come
indexing permission on the lead module, Perl::Critic::Policy::CompileTime, but
Mark (MJGARDNER, copied o
I’ve heard back from Xan, and as a result have transferred the first-come
permissions back to Xan.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Shlomi,
I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat. I’m working through distributions
that had two or more people with first-come permissions, or where there are
modules with no first-come.
The XML-LibXML is one of these. All modules have PERIGRIN with first-come,
apart from the lead modul
> I'm fine with removing the ancient copy associated with me.
>
> -bill (BBIRTH)
Thanks Bill — I’ve just scheduled the deletion, which will happen in 72 hours.
Cheers,
Neil
> I'm fine with you removing the copies associated with me too.
Thanks Ed — I’ve just scheduled the deletion, which will happen in 72 hours.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Luc,
I’ve just realised that I’ve been caught out by a PAUSE restriction, which is
why your releases of MHonArc aren’t being indexed.
PAUSE now requires you to have an indexing permission on the package name that
corresponds to the distribution name. So for the distribution MHonArc, it
requ
Hi Sam,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving the cases where a
distribution has two or more people with the first-come indexing permission on
modules in the distribution.
XML-SRS is one of these distributions. There are several people with
first-come, and a number of modules w
Hi Torsten,
Thanks for getting back to me.
Okamoto-san: do you want to retain first-come permissions, or shall I transfer
to GETTY?
Thanks,
Neil
Hi Aaron,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where there’s
a clash between permissions on distributions, or where two different releases
in the past have entries in the CPAN Index that now clash.
Your Class-Indexed distribution was released in 2004, and included a
Hi Jochen,
Thanks for the updates on the distributions. Given they’re all no longer being
maintained, I’ll mark them as available for adoption.
To do that, I’ll reindex a number of your releases, and delete some old
releases, so there’s no clash in the index.
You’ll get some emails from PAUSE
Hi Jochen,
Three of your distributions are now marked as available for adoption, and have
consistent ownership.
Msql-Mysql-modules is a different matter, as there’s some conflict on package
names and permissions with DBD-mysql. I’ll deal with that separately, as I
suspect it’s not going to be
Hi Sam,
I’m going to schedule the deletion of your old releases of HTML-Template. This
will resolve the conflict caused by HTML::Template::DEFAULT still being listed
in the CPAN Index against an old release of HTML-Template.
You’ll get a confirmation email from PAUSE, letting you know this is
Hi Hannyaharamitu-san,
I am going to schedule the deletion of old releases of JSON-RPC from your
author directory. You will get an email confirming this from PAUSE, and be
given 72 hours to reverse this.
Once the old releases have gone, the old modules will be dropped from the CPAN
Index, and
Hi Zbigniew,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m trying to resolve situations where CPAN
distributions have split ownership, or where some modules have no ownership, or
are in conflict with another distribution. Your WebNano distribution is one of
these.
The latest release is fine, but there are
Hi Damion,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m trying to resolve situations where CPAN
distributions have split ownership, or where some modules have no ownership, or
are in conflict with another distribution. Your Tk-DKW distribution is one of
these.
Earlier releases of Tk-DKW contained module T
> Yep, that sounds like the right thing to do here. The 0.03 release is the
> "officially" supported version anyway and it's probably best not to have the
> older releases around at this stage.
Thanks Damion — I’ve just scheduled deletion of the two earlier releases;
they’ll be deleted in 3 day
Hi Eric,
I have scheduled the deletion of your old releases of Net-ICal. Once they’ve
gone, this will resolve the permissions clash, described in a previous email.
Cheers,
Neil
On 20 Sep 2016, 22:04 +0100, Neil Bowers , wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> > I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE ad
Hi Mark,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. On slack at the weekend, you said that you’d like
to stop getting emails about bugs that are reported in CPAN distributions that
you’re no longer maintaining. You’re getting these emails because even though
you’ve handed over the first-come permission, you
Hi Dobrica,
I’m about to schedule the deletion of the old releases of Fuse from your author
directory. You’ll get a confirmation from PAUSE, and the files will be deleted
in 3 days (72 hours).
Once they’re gone, this should resolve the permissions clash.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Vadim,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m tidying up situations where modules in a
distribution have either missing permissions or permissions shared between two
or more people. The Tcl-Tk distribution is one of these.
Your Tcl-Tk has four different releases listed in the CPAN Index. This is
Hi Mark,
> Please drop co-maint on all these distributions.
I’ve just dropped all of those co-maints.
> Maybe mark them as ADOPTME or something.
Some of them already have ADOPTME with first-come. Quite a few have ARISTOTLE
with first-come, so we can’t replace him with ADOPTME. I’ll give him a n
Hi Aristotle,
You have first-come on a number of MJD’s distributions. He has just asked for
all of his co-maints to be dropped, as he doesn’t want to get bug reports, or
to be contacted about them.
The following distributions have the latest release on CPAN from MJD, but you
have first-come
•
Hi Nathan,
Would you be happy for me to do a 0.02 release of your
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::WebPivot module, so resolve the issue previously
outlined?
Cheers,
Neil
On 5 Aug 2020, 15:57 +0100, Neil Bowers , wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> I’m one of the PAUSE admins. PAUSE is the system used
Hi Graham,
> If nobody else has spoken up for it, I'd be interested in taking over
> maintenance of File::Listing (From reading Neil's posting on blogs.perl.org I
> understand that it is available for adoption). My main interest is because
> it is used by my own Alien-Build, though I realize it
Hi Sam & Jean-Loius,
Thanks to both of you for getting back to me.
I’ll schedule the deletion of the old releases, which will remove old modules
from the CPAN Index.
If you look at the MetaCPAN page for Sam’s latest release
(https://metacpan.org/release/Tangram), you’ll see that a number of th
Hi John,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through CPAN distributions that have
mixed ownership, which can be for a number of reasons.
The Tcl-pTk is one of these. This was caused by the module MainWindow being
dropped from the distribution, and the first-come permission being transferre
Hi John,
> I’m confused about why the Tangram-2.10 release would be in my directory. I
> am not the author of that package.
Sorry, that was a cut & paste error — I’ve been working through a lot of cases
like this.
> If the old releases of Tcl-pTk get deleted from my directory, does that mean
>
> Thanks for looking into it. Switch them to HANDOFF please.
Done!
Hi Sam,
I see from the reindexing of your most recent release of Tangram that there are
two packages used where someone else has the indexing permission, related to an
entirely different CPAN distribution.
The first of these is "Person", which is part of the Tangram::Springfield
examples. Ther
Hi Sawyer & p5p,
Todd Rinaldo has asked to adopt Gisle Aas’s Digest::MD5 module.
This is a core module, and is also far up the CPAN River — it has nearly 13k
dependent CPAN distributions.
Todd already maintains a number of high-on-the-river distributions, so I don’t
see a problem with this, bu
Hi Aristotle,
> Of these, only Memoize has had any traffic as visible to me, though
> admittedly I have no visibility into MJD’s mail. I’ll assume that that
> one should take priority.
Yeah, that makes sense.
> I’ll wager that the least documented ones are by
> dint of that fact also the least l
> Ok. I am good with you deleting old releases out of my user directory.
Thanks John — I’ll do that now. You’ll get an email from PAUSE confirming this,
and letting you know that the files will actually be deleted in 3 days.
Cheers,
Neil
21 Sep 2020, 08:59 +0100, Neil Bowers , wrote:
> Hi Luc,
>
> I’ve just realised that I’ve been caught out by a PAUSE restriction, which is
> why your releases of MHonArc aren’t being indexed.
>
> PAUSE now requires you to have an indexing permission on the package name
> th
Hi Matt,
I’ve just rationalised the first-comes on the Catalyst related distributions
that I flagged:
> For Catalyst-Controller-WrapCGI, you have first-come on the lead module and
> one other module, and RKITOVER has first-come on one module. RKITOVER has
> done all releases, so makes sense fo
Hi Alexander, Andrew, Daniel, David, Marcus, Matt, and Simon,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through situations where CPAN
distributions are appearing in the index, but have either split ownership of
packages in the distribution, or missing ownership.
You have all done at least one re
Hi Tsichida-san,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on clearing up situations where a CPAN
distribution has split ownership, and/or where modules from a distribution
appear in the CPAN Index, but don’t have any indexing permissions. Your
Test-Module-Used distribution is one of these.
In
I have just transferred first-come on Digest::MD5 to P5P, and given TODDR
co-maint.
Neil
Hi Kenneth,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through historical cases where a
distribution has indexing permissions split across two or more people, or where
some of the modules in a distribution appear in the index, but no-one has an
indexing permission. The TermReadKey is one of these
Hi Ioannis,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through historical cases where a
distribution has indexing permissions split across two or more people, or where
some of the modules in a distribution appear in the index, but no-one has an
indexing permission. The Test-Legal distribution is
Kenneth’s CPAN address bounces. I tracked him down, and had a reply from him:
he’s happy for the files to be deleted, and for his CPAN email address to
continue bouncing.
Neil
installed when someone runs "cpan MP3::Info", as
JMERELO has the most recent release.
Cheers,
Neil
On 18 Sep 2020, 22:36 +0100, Neil Bowers , wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where there
> is split ownership of a distribut
Hi Slaven,
I know you were thinking about doing a release of BikePower to drop Tie::Lang
and resolve the indexing permissions problem, but as a holding position, I’m
going to drop your co-maint on Tie-Lang and reindex your release from 1999 (!),
so you’ll get first-come back and the distributio
Hi Shlomi,
Thanks for the nudge.
I’ve dropped HANDOFF from XML-LibXML.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Chris,
> Neil, I’m sorry I neglected to get back to you; I was thinking about it, and
> then I forgot to come back to it.
Absolutely no worries — we’ve all got more stuff than usual on our minds. Heck,
I’m not even American and I’m distracted by your news!
> As long as it is still in BackPAN
Hi Alex,
> I've just scheduled my two DBIx-Class releases on PAUSE for deletion.
Thank you!
One thing I forgot to point out: Peter (RIBASUSHI) has the most recent releases
of DBIx-Class on CPAN. And should anyone want to install an older release, you
can install from BackPAN using cpanm.
Thank
Hi Sawyer & p5p,
Todd Rinaldo has asked to adopt Gisle Aas’s Digest::MD5 module:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Digest
This is a dual-life module, and is also far up the CPAN River — it has more
than 13k dependent CPAN distributions.
If everyone’s happy with this, I’ll transfer the first-come to P5P
Hi Michael,
> [Please can I have co-maint on HTML::CalendarMonthSimple so my release can be
> indexed]
I’m one of the PAUSE admins.
Please give me a little while to try and contact Gregor. Hopefully he’ll reply,
but if he doesn’t, then I’ll give you co-maint and re-index your release.
Cheers,
Hi Olaf,
Your release of Plack-Test-Agent was hit by the PAUSE bug that drops first-come
permissions in some situations[*]. As you can see from the notes on the github
issue, I think I’ve worked out what the bug is, so when I put DROLSKY’s
first-come back, I’ll make sure he gets co-maint first.
Permissions on Plack::Test::Agent are back as previously.
I forgot to add the link to the PAUSE bug:
https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/348
Olaf, I noticed in your comment on that bug that you seemed to think that you
lost a co-maint during a release — is that right, or might you have had a
> > Olaf, I noticed in your comment on that bug that you seemed to think that
> > you lost a co-maint during a release — is that right, or might you have had
> > a first-come on a module, and that’s what got lost?
>
> That’s correct. I lost co-maint on WWW::YouTube::Download, but the maintainer
Hi Vadrer,
> yes, scheduling old releases for deletion is okay!
Great — thank you. I’ll do that now: you’ll get a confirmation email from PAUSE.
Cheers,
Neil
I’ve transferred first-come on the Digest distribution to P5P, and have given
TODDR co-maint.
GAAS also retains co-maint.
The Digest distribution contains packages Digest, Digest::base, and
Digest::file.
Neil
Hi Hagen,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where
distributions have split ownership, or where there is conflict between packages
in two or more CPAN distributions. Your Finance-Quant distribution[1] is one of
these.
The problem is the "chart" package in Finance:
Hi Tsichida-san,
Are you happy for me to schedule deletion of the old releases of your
Test-Module-Used distribution?
The latest release would remain in your author directory on PAUSE, and would
still be in the CPAN Index.
All of your releases to CPAN are always available on BackPAN, in your a
Hi Stephen & Slaven,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where CPAN
distributions have split ownership, and where there is conflict between two
distributions.
The Tie::Watch module is one of these: LUSOL has first-come on Tie::Watch, but
it appears in two different
Hi Sriram,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations on CPAN where
a distribution has split ownership, and/or has conflict with other
distributions. The "examples" package you released in 1997 is one of these.
The examples distribution has a number of packages, some of wh
Hi Ed,
Jarkko said he’s happy for you to have co-maint on Graph, so I just gave you
co-maint on Graph and the other modules in the Graph distribution.
Neil
Hi Slaven,
Normally I’d suggest making Tk depend on Tie-Watch, but if your desire to keep
Tk low dependency is strong enough, and also given that you’ve indexing
permissions on both Tk and Tie-Watch, and that Tie-Watch hasn’t had a release
in the last 10 years, it sounds to me like the best tra
Hi Philip,
> I inadvertently used an excessively high 9 digit version number a release ago
> for module : Preprocess::Ops . I wish to return to my standard 8 digit
> version numbering scheme. I have deleted the files associated with the 9
> digit version number. Might it be possible for you to
Hi Michael,
I failed to track down Gregor, so have given you co-maint on
HTML::CalendarMonthSimple and have just triggered a re-indexing of your release.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Dmitrii,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins.
I see that you’re having problems with getting recent uploads of
App-SimpleBackuper indexed. This is because you switched the format of your
version numbers, sadly.
You previously released 0.1 and most recently released 0.2.3. The trouble is
that PAUSE
Hi Luc,
> I have conflict when posting the package to PAUSE:
> $ cpan-upload MHonArc-2.6.20.tar.gz
> registering upload with PAUSE web server
> POSTing upload for MHonArc-2.6.20.tar.gz to
> https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery
> request failed with error code 409
> Message: Conflict
>
> I alre
I’ve been having email with Chitresh Sharma (CHI) about his link_NCBI
distribution, which he released in 2007. It has a bunch of top-level package
names, one of which is owned by ADAMK, though that clashes elsewhere as well.
Chitresh has decided to delete this version, and at some later date wil
Hi,
I have added PERLANCAR as co-maint on the Net-Blogger distribution.
Cheers,
Neil
On 17 Oct 2020, 20:15 +0100, Perl Ancar , wrote:
> Dear PAUSE admins,
>
> I have obtained permission from CLACO to adopt Net-Blogger. Please add me to
> the maintainers list. Thanks. Regards
>
> > -- For
Hi Shlomi,
The error was a database timeout, as the details of the email said.
When this happens, the first thing to do is check whether your release got
indexed anyway, for example by either checking the index directly, or easier is
to go and see what version is listed on MetaCPAN as the lates
Hi David,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins.
If you’re happy for Les to adopt Time::ParseDate (i.e. he would get the
first-come indexing permission), then let me know and I can do the permissions
transfer for you. If we go this route, would you like to keep co-maint (which
would mean you’d be copied
Hi Anuraj,
> I apologize for asking such a silly question however, do you know what would
> be the best way to approach authors and making submissions or adopting an
> existing module ? Would any books or articles help ease me into this ?
Here are two sources of information:
• The Pause Operati
Hi Anuraj,
Another place you could look, is this list of CPAN distributions that are
candidates for adoption:
https://neilb.org/adoption/
The flag column indicates whether the module has been explicitly flagged as
available for adoption. Click on the flag in the header to sort on that colum
Hi,
I’ve just transferred first-come to WDH on:
• Net-Stomp-MooseHelpers
• Net-Stomp-Producer
• Plack-Handler-Stomp
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Shlomi,
> I did that now, thanks. However, the email told me to contact the admins and
> report it there. Should the errors and recommendations be rephrased?
They should! I opened a ticket to that effect in June:
https://github.com/andk/pause/issues/353
I’ll put this on my todo list to hav
> Any word on the repo situation? One option would be to give me (mohawk2)
> collaborator status on yours, then I can bring it up to date with the CPAN
> release, and go from there?
Added you to my repo.
Hi Les,
As David pointed out, the Time-ParseDate distribution includes a number of
packages, including the Time::JulianDay that you’re interested in.
If you look here at the distribution page on MetaCPAN, you’ll see the list of
packages:
https://metacpan.org/release/Time-ParseDate
Do y
Hi Les,
> Yes, that will be fine. I'm willing to help out with all of those modules.
>
> I'm worried that I'm not smart enough, but I've been using Perl since 2000
> and Linux, Apache, msql, mysql since 1995 so I do
> have 'history'! (grin)
One final thing to consider, and then if you’re still k
Hi Tsuchida-san,
Thank you for scheduling the deletion of old releases — much appreciated.
Neil
Hi Steven,
I’ve just transferred first-come on WebService-Blogger to you.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi all,
I’ve just transferred first-come on Time-ParseDate to Les, with David retaining
co-maint.
Cheers,
Neil
Hi Shlomi,
I’ve noticed that PAJAS’s first-come on XML::LibXML::Iterator has been dropped,
as a result of your recent release of XML-LibXML-Iterator.
This is down to a known bug in PAUSE[1]. There’s a fix for this in review, but
in the meantime I’ll manually resolve this. I’ll do this by droppi
Hi Chris,
I’ve noticed that P5P's first-come on Module::CoreList has been dropped, as a
result of your recent release of Module-CoreList.
This is down to a known bug in PAUSE[1]. There’s a fix for this in review, but
in the meantime I’ll manually resolve this. I’ll do this by dropping all perms
I’ve been trying to get in touch with SRIRAM, who has a tarball examples.tar.gz
in his author directory, released 23 years ago.
It has missing permissions on most packages, and clashes with two other
distributions.
I finally contacted him via LinkedIn, and explained the problem. I suggested
th
Hi Nathan,
I emailed you last month, and in April, about your Perl module
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::WebPivot. I’m a PAUSE admin, and I’m working to
resolve situations where CPAN distributions clash with other distributions, or
have split or missing indexing permissions.
Would you be happy for m
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