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[perl #129896] the maintainership/upstream situation of theCwd/File::Spec dist is very unclear
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From:
Christian Walde via RT
Date:
October 18, 2016 12:45
Subject:
[perl #129896] the maintainership/upstream situation of theCwd/File::Spec dist is very unclear
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-17374-1476794739-1317.129896-15-0@perl.org
Sawyer, thanks for taking the time to verify that the facts as i understood them are in fact understood correctly. However, i have to apologize, as the questions i asked were a step ahead of the actual questions i did care about (and mentally answered pessimistically, resulting in the questions you saw).
The questions that are unclear to me are as follows.
Assume an average, casual Perl developer, who's largely unaware of p5p and only uses Perl to write things, grabs stuff from CPAN, and if a module is broken, occasionally reports problems or maybe makes a patch. It's not a person from p5p, not anyone like you or me, or in fact anyone who'd be regular on IRC. All they have is: http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/PathTools-3.62/
What exactly are they supposed to do, for this distribution, in order to, with a reasonable amount of success, and a reasonable amount of timeliness:
- Report a bug and see it responded to and discussed in earnest?
- Provide a patch and have it evaluated, integrated and released?
With the information available there, such a person could only understand the answers to be:
- Put a ticket in the RT queue or contact Ken (documented maintainer), or contact RJBS (last releaser).
- Make a patch by downloading the latest release and creating a diff, then do the above.
These answers though are wrong or misleading, since:
- The documented maintainer has not done any maintenance in 8 years, so is unlikely to suddenly start again.
- The current releaser only did so for an important hotfix, and is not doing active maintenance.
- There are no links to any repository, resulting in any patches made to not account for the ~12 commits in blead since then.
- In the past year only one ticket in the queue was touched by any of the listed maintainers and that was RJBS, so it's unlikely that any new tickets there at this point would receive much love.
So right now, it looks like the answer to both of the questions above is:
You can't do either.
Is this correct?
If not, what are the correct answers and how can we get them documented in the dist and released?
If it is correct, should it be changed and what can it realistically be changed to?
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https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129896
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