Re: Status of DateTime::Event::Easter

Hi Jean,

Thanks for poking me on this. I don't spend much time coding any more. 
And even less, coding in perl. And even less coding in DateTime!

If you're willing to take over the maintenance then I have no problem 
with that at all. You'll need to remind me what I need to do to make 
that happen however.

I built this as part of some work I was doing way-back-when that was 
aimed at creating a liturgical calendar that would deal with all the 
tiny ridiculous rules that go into determining different feast days and 
other holy days! In the end I let that go and all I got done was Easter.

Regards
- Rick

On 16-Jan-15 07:53, Jean Forget wrote:
> To all users of DateTime::Calendar::Discordian, my best wishes for YOLD
> 3181
>
> And to all users of Julian and Gregorian calendars (through the use of
> DateTime::Calendar::Julian and DateTime), happy new year 2015.
>
> Now, to Rick about DateTime::Event::Easter:
>
> I have noticed that your module has not been updated till 2004. It
> appears in Neil Bowers' list of CPAN Adoption Candidates with a score
> of 8. There are 3 current RT issues (actually 4, but RT 79041 and RT
> 101238 are duplicate IMHO). All three issues are about the POD
> documentation and all three include a patch, but you should note that
> there are 458 failures by the CPAN testers and RT 79041 explains these
> failures.
>
> http://neilb.org/adoption/
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7598
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51892
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79041
> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101238
>
> So, are you still maintaining this module?  Do you have problems which
> prevent you to update this module (commitments elsewhere, for
> example)?  Are these problems permanent or do you think they could be
> solved within, say, a few months?
>
> If necessary, you can give me co-maintenanceship so I can release a
> new version of the module to CPAN.  I have already forked the GitPAN
> repo to work on the module, so I can already work on the module.
> Beyond applying the patches from the RT tickets, I have a few other
> ideas to improve the module.
>
> 1) Fix the kwalitee issues
> http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/DateTime-Event-Easter
>
> 2) Add the GPL-mandated comments in all code files.  If you read the
> Appendix to the GPL "How to apply these terms to you new programs",
> you notice that you have to insert some comments at the beginning of
> each source file. I consider that "each source file" includes the test
> files "t/*.t", so I insert the GPL summary in these test files also.
>
> 3) New functionality: add the long range feasts and events associated
> with Easter: fat tuesday, ash wednesday, ascension and pentecost.  OK,
> you can already do this if you know the numerical value of the offset,
> but it would be nicer if the offset can be provided by the module.
>
> 4) Improve the code coverage by the "t/*.t" test files.
>
> 5) New functionality: public API for the Golden Number and the Epact.
>
> I have already implemented (1) and (2) in my Github repo. I have time
> to implement (3) and begin (4) while waiting for your approval for
> co-maintenanceship. (5) can wait for the next release.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Forget
> (JFORGET on CPAN)
>
>