I maintain various perl modules from time to time, currently these:
libcoy-perl
libfilehandle-unget-perl
libinline-perl
liblingua-en-inflect-perl
libmail-mbox-messageparser-perl
libsys-utmp-perl
libterm-slang-perl
libtime-human-perl
liblingua-en-words2nums-perl (also upstream)
I'm trying to find co-maintainers for all my packages. I've been
periphially aware of the debian perl group for a while, mostly due to
posts on this mailing list (most that I can remember seem to be non-DDs
looking for someone to do an upload).
I've read all the docs on alioth and still have some unresolved
questions.
- What is the overall health of the group like? There seem to be a lot
of open modules to package and packages to upload in the tracker,
most of them dating back to 2004. The number of bugs isn't high, but
there are a suprising number of forwarded bugs. Are there enough DDs
on the project? Are there enough people to keep up with the current
set of packages?
- Do maintainers tend to focus on a subset of the packages maintained
by the group, or does everyone work on all the packages as a whole?
- Do you have automated tools (ie, uscan) set up to alert you of new
upstream releases? How up-to-date are your packages overall?
- Since it's using the packages/<package/{trunk,tags,branches} layout,
how do you possibly check everything out of svn? Without also getting
umpteen gigabtes of old tags and branches that is.
- What's the group doing to identify useful new stuff on CPAN?
(To suggest a module at random, Term::Gnuplot)
Thanks,
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see shy jo
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