How does perl-thanks work?

szabgab has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I just tried to send a thank-you note to the Perl 5 porters, but I am not sure if it worked. How can I check it?

First I ran perlthanks on the command-line. After answering all kinds of questions and writing my note, it told me it has submitted the message, but as I don't have a running e-mail system on my machine, I am not sure if it worked at all.

Then I sent an e-mail to perl-thanks-at-perl.org from my Gmail account.

I looked both at Perl 5 Porters mailing list archive and in the Perl 5 queue of RT. I could not find either of my submissions.

According to domm, they used to reach the Perl 5 porters list.

So I wonder. Have my attempts failed? Am I looking at the wrong place? Are they waiting in some other queue for someone to approve them manually? Do I need to send the thank you in some other way?

Shall I submit a bug-report complaining that thank-you does not work? :)

Update

The one I e-mailed from Gmail has just showed up in the archive. (6 hours after I sent it). I don't know for sure, but I assume it was held for manual approval as moritz also suggested.

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Re: How does perl-thanks work? by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 17, 2013 at 10:14 UTC
`perlthanks` is "just" `perlbug` except you don't get prompted for the error message. So I expect `perlthanks@perl.org` to be heavily filtered for emails that really look as if they have been sent via `perlbug`. Also, I don't expect them to enter RT, because they are not really bugs. On the other hand, there has been some mailing list wonkyness, and I'm not sure if it is related to booking.com or the mailing list hosting by perl..	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How does perl-thanks work? by moritz (Cardinal) on Dec 17, 2013 at 12:52 UTC
Fwiw the mailing list is manually moderated, so if you aren't a regular poster, you message might have been held back for approval. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply]
Re: How does perl-thanks work? by taint (Chaplain) on Dec 17, 2013 at 14:59 UTC
Seems like there should be a write-up on this somewhere. Maybe on perl5-porters, perl.(com\|org). Heck. Maybe even here. Looks like a great opportunity, for someone who knows/has more/all the details. Great question, szabgab. --Chris UPDATE; Thanks marto, for the link. :) Yes. What say about me, is true.	[reply]
Re^2: How does perl-thanks work? by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:04 UTC
perlthanks.	[reply]
Re^3: How does perl-thanks work? by szabgab (Priest) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:14 UTC
Thanks, though I could not find if that covers what happens after I sent the report. If it requires manual approval that might take several hours to arrive, and if I get any feedback.	[reply]
Re^4: How does perl-thanks work? by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:24 UTC
Re^5: How does perl-thanks work? by szabgab (Priest) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:39 UTC
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Re^5: How does perl-thanks work? by taint (Chaplain) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:47 UTC
Re^4: How does perl-thanks work? by taint (Chaplain) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:21 UTC
Re^5: How does perl-thanks work? by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 17, 2013 at 15:31 UTC