What to do about the fact that installing https://metacpan.org/release/TimeDate became broken after 1 Jan 2020 ?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

installing https://metacpan.org/release/TimeDate from CPAN while running tests
has become broken - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=124509 . Its
maintainer - https://metacpan.org/author/GBARR didn't make a release of any of
his distros since July 2017 and had no github activity for at least a year -
https://github.com/gbarr . Graham, are you there?

I suggest making an emergency update release with the fix to the test file, and
if no one better volunteers instead, I volunteer to receive COMAINT on all the
TimeDate namespaces (see https://metacpan.org/release/TimeDate ) and fix bugs,
apply patches, etc. I am https://metacpan.org/author/SHLOMIF on CPAN.

Are there any better suggestions?

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[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Graham and all,

On Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:33:54 +0000
"Graham Barr" <gb...@pobox.com> wrote:

> I have not had anything to do with anything Perl for a long time so I'm ok
> with anyone taking ownership
>
> Graham
>

Thanks for the update, Graham! So: does anyone else want ownership of TimeDate?

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[Ryan Thompson]

Hello all,

If no one else wants to, I'm willing to take over TimeDate and stay on top of the issues going forward.

I also have some extra bandwidth right now to get another release out ASAP. I've tested the patch from RT and it does seem to do the trick.

- Ryan <r...@cpan.org>

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 05:09:18 -0600
Ryan Thompson <i...@ry.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> If no one else wants to, I'm willing to take over TimeDate and stay on
> top of the issues going forward.
>
> I also have some extra bandwidth right now to get another release out
> ASAP. I've tested the patch from RT and it does seem to do the trick.
>
> - Ryan <r...@cpan.org>
>

Hi all!

I am perfectly fine with Ryan here getting ownership on TimeDate instead of
me (or in addition).

Thanks Ryan for volunteering as well.

P.S: Ryan, note that http://ry.ca/ (= your home site) gives me a 403 forbidden.
can you fix it?

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[Ryan Thompson]

On 2020-01-08 6:26 a.m., Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 05:09:18 -0600
> Ryan Thompson <i...@ry.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> If no one else wants to, I'm willing to take over TimeDate and stay on
>> top of the issues going forward.
>>
>> I also have some extra bandwidth right now to get another release out
>> ASAP. I've tested the patch from RT and it does seem to do the trick.
>>
>> - Ryan <r...@cpan.org>
>>
> Hi all!
>
> I am perfectly fine with Ryan here getting ownership on TimeDate instead of
> me (or in addition).
>
> Thanks Ryan for volunteering as well.

I just want to help if I can. Since you took the initiative to bring
this issue to light, please don't let me interfere if you would prefer
to have first-come, here.

> P.S: Ryan, note that http://ry.ca/ (= your home site) gives me a 403 forbidden.
> can you fix it?

Sorry about that. I'm retiring an old server, so DNS for ry.ca (not
www.ry.ca) was temporarily wrong. Changes should be propagated by now.

- R <r...@cpan.org>

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Ryan,

sorry for the late reply.

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:39:51 -0600

Ryan Thompson <i...@ry.ca> wrote:

> On 2020-01-08 6:26 a.m., Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 05:09:18 -0600
> > Ryan Thompson <i...@ry.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> If no one else wants to, I'm willing to take over TimeDate and stay on
> >> top of the issues going forward.
> >>
> >> I also have some extra bandwidth right now to get another release out
> >> ASAP. I've tested the patch from RT and it does seem to do the trick.
> >>
> >> - Ryan <r...@cpan.org>
> >>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I am perfectly fine with Ryan here getting ownership on TimeDate instead of
> > me (or in addition).
> >
> > Thanks Ryan for volunteering as well.
>
> I just want to help if I can. Since you took the initiative to bring
> this issue to light, please don't let me interfere if you would prefer
> to have first-come, here.
>

No problem either way.

> > P.S: Ryan, note that http://ry.ca/ (= your home site) gives me a 403
> > forbidden. can you fix it?
>
> Sorry about that. I'm retiring an old server, so DNS for ry.ca (not
> www.ry.ca) was temporarily wrong. Changes should be propagated by now.
>

Thanks! It seems to be working fine now here.

> - R <r...@cpan.org>

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