Re: [Perlunit-devel] New maintainer for Test::Unit namespace sought

[Adam S. <ad...@sp...>]

Piers Cawley (pdc...@bo...) wrote:
> le...@ai... writes:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > My interests and work life have diverged from Perl and this project
> > to a degree that I am not able to devote the time needed to this
> > project.
> > 
> > However, I don't want to stand in the way, so:
> > 
> > Whoever of this group wants to maintain Test::Unit and the related
> > PerlUnit files on CPAN, please come forward and say so.
> 
> Christian, I'm really sorry to see you leaving. I'd like to extend
> my thanks (and I'm sure, the thanks of everyone else on the list) for
> starting PerlUnit in the first place and carrying things this far.

Absolutely, thanks for all your great work, and I'm sorry to see you
go too (can totally understand why though; I wouldn't have time to
hack PerlUnit if work didn't require it).

> > My recommendation would be to make Piers Cawley the new maintainer,
> > but I leave the decision to the currently active members of this
> > developer group.

I'd be very happy with Piers as maintainer too.

> Thanks for the vote of confidence. Whilst I'm happy to take the job
> on

Great!

> my current main interest is my Perl Refactoring Engine
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/preface/ if you want to take a look
> at the current undocumented (but with passing tests) tool that can
> just about do extract_method effectively). Though I intend to continue
> working on PerlUnit (in fact I'm using it far more now than I was, so
> I'm finding things that need fixing more often...) there may be people
> better qualified to take it on.

Going with the dogfood principle and the fact that you've been the
most active developer recently, I think it makes the most sense for
you to take it on.  FWIW, I'll be backing you up as much as possible
over the next few weeks :-)