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contributing requires the "admins ... declare code abandoned and the seize it"

I assume I misunderstand you, because this strikes me as disingenuous at best. I would guess that any PAUSE author who requested that their work be taken off CPAN would have their request honored. It may provoke some comment and consternation, but given that an author may have legal issues regarding authorship I see no advantage in CPAN's noncompliance.

I don't believe CPAN contributions require that "admins ... seize code" nor do I believe that the fear of such prevents contributions.

CPAN is a distribution mechanism not a development tool. There is no reason to expect CPAN admins to jump to take on new tasks that have little to do with that for which they volunteered.

When you release on CPAN, you don't have to stop developing the codebase where, how and with whom you like. I should have been clearer about the timing.

There is nothing I see in the rules of the CPAN that you are complaining about; how is CPAN stopping you from setting up a collaborative development process for the modules in your care? You just seem to want CPAN to be something completely different than what it is.

I like what you are proposing, I just don't see it having much to do with CPAN.

Be well,
rir

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Re^9: JETTERO tries to take over Net::IMAP::Simple on PAUSE (admins)
by tye (Sage) on May 20, 2009 at 05:44 UTC
    I assume I misunderstand you

    It is unfortunate that you have difficulty understanding your own words when they are quoted back to you. It is true that your phrasing was somewhat ambiguous (or worse) but I chose to quote more accurately over trying to "correct" it to what I believe you actually meant (that admins allow it to be seized rather than seizing it themselves).

    I've deleted the rest of this reply that I was trying to compose as things were just going in circles. If you can't follow my point yet, then I'm convinced I won't be able to get you to follow it with another reply so I'll save everybody the time.

    Meanwhile, it doesn't sound like the CPAN admins have yet removed their roadblocks that prevent jettero from contributing (though I can't now find the latest update that I read somewhere). Meanwhile, the majority of potential contributors to CPAN never make it beyond the "become a stalker" step to the point of bothering CPAN admins much less to the point of actually contributing, disappearing completely unnoticed.

    - tye        

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      it doesn't sound like the CPAN admins have yet removed their roadblocks that prevent jettero from contributing

      In the original post, jettero stated that he had already contributed the code in question to CPAN.

      Be well,
      rir

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