Developers of Sympa

["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 12/18/19 11:32 AM, Luc Didry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> MHonArc¹ is the central piece of Sympa for list archiving.
> Unfortunately, the module don’t have proper metadatas and has some
> bugs with modern Perl (i.e. > 5.12²). This comes with problems on
> installation (See the mail from Jörg Klein on this list, on last
> sunday, subject: "Re: [sympa-developpers] [sympa-announce] Sympa
> 6.2.49 beta 3 released"³) and usage. For the installation, as I
> remember, cpanm can’t check the version of MHonArc since it’s not in
> its metadatas so it think that the installation failed. For the bugs,
> you have to patch MHonArc to make it work properly.
> 
> The module has not been updated for more than five years (last
> release: april 2014).
> 
> So here’s my proposal: either ask PAUSE for the ownership of the
> module or fork it and publish a new module, with correct metadatas and 
> ready for new perl versions.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> ¹ https://metacpan.org/release/MHonArc
> ² https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76857
> ³ Sorry, I can’t give the link to the list’s archive, I’m stuck on the
> "I’m not a spammer" button page
> 

Yes, we should ask for the ownership of the module. If that fails, we
can do a fork.

Regards
         Racke

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