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* Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com> [2023-08-23 00:53:12 +0200]: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:37:20 +0200, Oodler 577 <oodler577@sdf-eu.org> wrote: > > > * Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> [2023-08-23 00:29:39 +0200]: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:22?AM Christian Walde <walde.christian@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > that said: is there a known pause policy regarding your identified > > > > behavior of squatting? > > > > > > «Perl reserves all lowercase namespaces for pragmas. That doesn't mean you > > > can't write a pragma, but you should get the blessing of p5p ( > > > perl5-porters@perl.org).» [1] > > that is a quite different thing from a squatting policy, but very applicable here, thanks leon :) > > > Or as it were, for 21 years, PAUSE. > > what does this mean? I didn't think that p5p controlled CPAN, PAUSE Admins (or whatever they are called) do. > > > > So there is a contingency policy for namespaces like these, though I don't > > > think we've ever used it. > > > > Sure let me know when you do something about types.pm. > > the order of operations here is somewhat different > > optimally you would've presented a proposal, gained concensus on it, and with agreement have uploaded a distribution to CPAN, thus grabbing the namespaces will did already grab ( https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=peek_perms&pause99_peek_perms_by=a&pause99_peek_perms_query=wbraswell&pause99_peek_perms_sub=Submit ) > > (you did not do that, you just grabbed them without asking anyone) > > then, as well with said concensus, contacted pause admins to enact said concensus on the permissions of items conflicting with yours > > if you are asking for pre-concensus unilateral action, then your perl-types dist would currently also be a target > > otherwise you will need to ask for this to be enacted, and once concensus has given the go-ahead, you will receive the appropriate replies Your turn to explain what you're trying to tell me. Cheers, Brett > -- > With regards, > Christian Walde > -- -- oodler@cpan.org oodler577@sdf-eu.org SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdfeu.org irc.perl.org #openmp #pdl #native