On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:29:05PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:02:40 +0200, andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) said: > > > What I believe is that the alpha flag (RC) prevented that the pumpking > > flag got invoked. I'll have a look to find out more. > > Theory confirmed. With the final release this will not happen. > Nonetheless I have a plan for a batch job to make Dave co-maint for > all "UNAUTHORIZED" modules for cosmetic reasons. Unfortunately this > will take me more than a day due to travelling plans. Just as a data point (since I don't understand any of this CPAN malarky), I note that Nicholas apparently had no trouble uploading http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.9-RC1.tar.gz -- A walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step... then continues for another 1,999,999 or so.