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• It is I (Score:2)

  by 2shortplanks (968)

  I am that fateful ex-employee that Alias is describing. For the record, I didn't ask to take over FOTANGO, but said that I'd like to take over the modules, and I'm up for whatever's the easiest way to do that, giving me access back to the fotango account, changing the email address, or just giving me co-maint on the modules.
  
  To quote Gross Pointe Blank (mainly because I like quoting Gross Pointe Blank, rather than for any real reason)
  
  Martin: Whole grain pancakes and an egg-white omelette, please.
  Waitress: W
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    My apologies.

    I didn't suggest to imply it was some kind of surreptitious takeover.

    For smaller companies, the way we recommend you set up shared release is to identify one person as a responsible headline/lead developer.

    In this scenario we're talking the likes of Matt Sergeant, Brad Fitzpatrick, Jesse Vincent. People with a more public profile, people who won't just vanish, and ideally people that are part owners.

    When an employee uploads a package, you transfer all of the primary namespace rights to this hea
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jesse (2531)

      Making me personally the maintainer for all the modules released by staff at my company is...very not right. Often, I have nothing to do with the modules other than that I pay the wonderful perl hackers who produce them. I've been procrastinating getting a 'BPS' or 'BESTPRACTICAL' PAUSE account for the company, but it (or some other affordance) that allows collective maintainership by me and my coworkers really needs to happen.
      • Re:It is I (Score:1)

        by Alias (5735) on 2009.08.21 7:05 (#70208) Homepage Journal

        If we were to start allowing company logins in numbers, I suspect we'd really need to look at some kind of function to say what to do on the death of the company.

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