- Has taken over maintenance of a CPAN module from its original author or another maintainer;
- Is thinking about taking over maintenance of someone else's CPAN module;
- Is a CPAN author who is no longer able to maintain his/her module and would like to encourage someone else to take over maintenance;
- Is the maintainer of Perl code in some location other than CPAN, e.g., your job.
- Is interested in the kind of Perl maintenance programming issues discussed in Peter Scott's Perl Medic link://, Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices or Mark Jason Dominus's forthcoming Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags;
Jim Keenan
Also, why isn't it hosted at perl.org? Not hosting it at perl.org will also give the perception that it's a second-class citizen list, and you'll lose the NNTP and archival search services provided there. Did you even ask to have this at perl.org?
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How is this different from module-authors@perl.org?
It's principal intended audience is much smaller: people who have taken over maintenance of CPAN modules from their original authors.
Not hosting it at perl.org will also give the perception that it's a second-class citizen list
At this point, I fully concede that it is a second-class citizen list -- because it hasn't proven itself. If people don't find it useful, its membership/readership will remain small and there will be no reason to host it at perl.org. If its readership grows, then transfer to a larger host would be worth considering.
I subscribe to several Perl lists which are not hosted at perl.org and, given their narrower focus, I think that's appropriate. There's More Than One Place to Host a Perl Mailing List.
Jim Keenan
I don't mind people reinventing the wheel, but let's first prove the existing wheel is lopsided.
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Given that theres only about 2-3 messages per day in module-authors
Is that an alternate-universe module-authors? The one Im on has about that many in a week, on average. :-)
(Which means I see even less point to a new list specifically for maintainers. Thered be what, 2-3 messages quarter-yearly?)
Makeshifts last the longest.
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