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Best practice to patch a existing module written by others Tom 10-09-2005
Posted by Tom on October 9, 2005, 8:29 pm
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Hi all,

I would like to ask what is the "official"/"best practice" to write
patch on a existing module which is original written by others?

The module I planned to patch is "Math::Amoeba".

Thanks in advance.


Tom



Posted by brian d foy on October 10, 2005, 12:13 pm
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> Hi all,
>
> I would like to ask what is the "official"/"best practice" to write
> patch on a existing module which is original written by others?

If you can't find the original author and the module hasn't been
updated in a long time, you can consider taking it over. Talk to
the folks at modules AT perl.org to start that process. :)

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brian d foy, bdfoy@cpan.org
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Posted by Tom on October 10, 2005, 10:26 pm
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Dear all,

Thanks for all replies. The original author told me that he would like
to let me to hand over if I am happy with that.

I spent plenty of time to search for "cpan.org" and "perl.org" but
still cannot find a standard procedure of "handover". Could anyone
suggesting some reference to me to follow?

Besides, I tried to register a developer a/c at "pause.cpan.org" but I
did not receive a acknowledge email. Is it normal?

Thanks in advance.



Posted by Randy Kobes on October 12, 2005, 12:04 am
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Tom wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for all replies. The original author told me that he would like
> to let me to hand over if I am happy with that.

Just for future reference, there are some suggestions available
for modules that have apparently been abandoned:
http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_maintain_module
The modules at perl.org mailing list can be consulted if
these suggestions don't work.

> I spent plenty of time to search for "cpan.org" and "perl.org" but
> still cannot find a standard procedure of "handover". Could anyone
> suggesting some reference to me to follow?
>
> Besides, I tried to register a developer a/c at "pause.cpan.org" but I
> did not receive a acknowledge email. Is it normal?

The registration guidelines at
http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#registering
suggest it might take 3 weeks to process; if nothing happens
after this time, try the modules at perl.org mail list.

Once you get a CPAN id, transferring ownership is relatively
straightforward; the original author visits
https://pause.perl.org/pause/
in which there's a form that can be used to transfer a given
module to your CPAN id.

--
best regards,
randy kobes


Posted by Tom on October 12, 2005, 12:38 am
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Thanks a lot.

The links you post are very helpful.
Besides, I search for the mailing archive but could not find my 1st
posting. I think there is an error occured last time.

I requested again and then this new message appear in the mailing list.
:)



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