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  • The PAUSE namespace is pretty messy.

    And that comes about it's been humped at and abused for 10 years.

    Lots of namespaces have first-come assigned, and those don't get cleared when they move. The module list provides additional metadata and a layer of officialdom

    The modules@perl.org mailing list deals with corner cases and strange situations.

    It has at times gone through unresponsive periods, but you shouldn't take that as an indication of it always doing so.

    It has been fairly response for the last 9 months at
  • CPAN, by design, wants people to upload things at the earliest time possible, even before stuff works in some cases. Get it out, available, and hackable by the community.

    The gateway to that is the Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE). You just need a CPAN ID, which is pretty easy to get. You can then upload any module that you like, including ones with names already taken.

    On top of that is the PAUSE indexer, which makes the CPAN meta files. It knows who uploaded what and which CPAN IDs get first right to a mo
    • Still, just because it isn't reasonable doesn't mean he has a point...

      I'm not sure if there are any obvious steps we could take to make the situation any better though.

      God knows I'd hate to have some web application or something queuing module requests. That would get out of hand pretty quickly. At least when something falls through the cracks on modules@ currently it doesn't hang around to slow things down later.

      Is there anything you would suggest Dan?
      • That should have been

        "Still, just because it isn't reasonable doesn't mean he doesn't have a point..."
      • His complaint would be more valid (but not really) three years ago. Even then, he could have tracked down a PAUSE admin and made a more direct plea. It doesn't look like he tried anything other than submitting the module registration form, so I don't think he really tried hard enough to make a statement about PAUSE other than his module wasn't registered.
  • Guilty as charged; for the record, I've now made Dan co-maintainer of the Attribute::Memoize and Attribute::Util namespaces. Maybe I should actually give up the Attribute::Memoize namespace, since I've got no module of that name anymore...

    Marcel
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