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TPF Grant Report

posted by Simon on 2003.08.04 5:43   

davorg writes "Autrijus Tang was the recipient of one of the recent Perl Foundation Grants. His project was to add support for pubkeys to CPAN.pm, Module::Build and PAR. He recently announced that he had met all of his targets. His report is now available on the Perl Foundation web site." Nice work, Autrijus.

• Correction... (Score:4, Informative)

  by autrijus (1505) on 2003.08.04 8:18 (#22734) Homepage Journal

  My report stated incorrectly that Perl 5.8.1 is expected to ship a version of CPAN.pm with my Module::Signature patches. This is no longer the case -- it is agreed that more testing is required for it to be merged into the stable CPAN.pm releases.

  However, I will work with Andreas Koenig during the 1.76_xx series to furthur stabilize the pubkey support, and eventually release a version that does contains the patch.

  Finally, I'd like to say that I am really grateful for this opportunity to work for TPF, and it has been a wonderful job to work on.

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• Credit to where credit's due... (Score:3, Informative)

  by autrijus (1505) on 2003.08.04 17:02 (#22752) Homepage Journal

  I have just been whacked with a cluestick and discovered that, for Module::Build's pubkey implementation, it's Dave Rolsky who've sent most of the patches to Ken Williams.

  It was my fault for not acknowledging Dave in addition to Ken in the report. A patch will be forthcoming. :-)

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  • Re:Credit to where credit's due... (Score:2)

    by autarch (914)

    Thanks. I want my due 15 minutes of fame ;)
• Report updated (Score:2)

  by KM (4)

  I updated the report on the TPF website with the changes sent to me.
• exciting (Score:1)

  by jettero (4429)

  two of my modules 'ls jettero' already have signatures using his ultra cool modules. Just wanted to give a shout out that Tang rules, par rules, etc...