Re: Ports list - is it being maintained?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andreas J. Koenig
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:43:44 -0500, David Golden <[email protected]> said:
>
>  > That raises a broader question.
>  > Who maintains all of the non tarball content on CPAN and what is the
>  > process for getting it changed?
>
> The original idea was that we have files on cpan in the authors tree
> that have a fixed name and can be overwritten by the owner. Then other
> cpan content could link to these files with relative links. It did not
> work out well. It seems that once somebody owns a file it becomes a
> burdon to maintain it. Not really surprising. We probably need other
> models for that.

Brainstorming -- what if we put all "static" CPAN content in a git
repo somewhere and arranged for the CPAN "master" to refresh from the
repo periodically.  Then we choose a suitable admin team to review and
apply patches.  (PAUSE admins + others?)  That would let those
motivated to update things have a much clearer method of doing so.

-- David