Re: [Reefknot-devel] datetime@ discussion

[srl <sla...@cs...>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:44:09AM -0500, Michael Slattery (sla...@an...) wrote:
> 
> Other than replacing Date:: calls for DateTime:: calls, what other 
> issues are there for fans of reefknot?

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that I, as nominal maintainer
of Net::ICal, don't have the tuits to do regular releases.
My day job is keeping me very busy and shows no signs of abating.

I'd be happy to see someone with experience step forward to 
be CPAN maintainer of the code, so patches can get applied
and released in a timely fashion. If you've never maintained
a CPAN module but are willing to learn, I'd be happy to
provide some guidance.

I get the sense that the OSX-using Perl community has more use
for Net::ICal than I do in my daily life, and until I get an OSX
box they're more likely to be good maintainers. It seems that,
for me, the headache of being the Official Maintainer is
overriding my interest in patching and doing releases.

I'll also happily take motivational speeches about why I should
keep the maintainership. :)

Other than that, one issue I've heard from a lot of people
is that the current Net::ICal codebase, particularly its
dependence on the uncommon Class::MethodMapper, is rather
baroque. If anyone has patches that make the code easier to
understand and maintain, I'd love to see them. (Particularly
if you'd like to be the new maintainer.)

srl
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