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Postings from October 2010
On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:43 AM, Zefram wrote: > I wish to take over maintenance of Data::Alias. I have recently published > a substantial patch to update it for post-5.10 Perls, but the author > (XMATH) is unresponsive. > > xmath has been noted as being unresponsive in recent months. This > particularly affected Sub::Name, which was broken by a core change in > 5.13.3. Despite a trivial patch being available, xmath never released > a fixed version, and ultimately it was taken over by rafl (FLORA). > > Data::Alias got broken by core changes in 5.11.0 and 5.11.2. Until > recently there was no fix to make it work on 5.12. I posted a fix to > <xmath@cpan.org> and <perl5-porters@perl.org> on 2010-10-12. In that > message I offered to take over maintenance. > > xmath has not replied to my message of 2010-10-12. Given the prior > history, I don't think a long wait is required to establish that he's > long-term unresponsive. FWIW, I agree with this assessment. Liz