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in thread Looking for the maintainer of Sendmail::Milter.

I filed an issue there but it came up against Sendmail::PMilter-1.00 instead of the dev release as I intended.

It's like I've escaped by parachute and landed in a maze.

What did I do wrong?

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Re^14: Looking for the maintainer of Sendmail::Milter.
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jul 16, 2019 at 12:33 UTC

    Do you mean this one? If so, it's in the right place. You just need to set the "broken in" to the dev version. At the moment the ticket doesn't refer to any particular version. In what way did it "came up against Sendmail::PMilter-1.00 instead of the dev release"?

    PS. If it isn't already clear, each RT queue relates to one dist, not any particular release. For example, have a look at the XML::LibXML queue. There you will see tickets raised against various versions. HTH.

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      • Do you mean this one? If so, it's in the right place.

      Yes, that's the one. I'm glad it's in the right place. :)

      • In what way did it "came up against Sendmail::PMilter-1.00 instead of the dev release"?

      I mean that the only way I've found of getting to that list of issues is by going to https://metacpan.org/release/Sendmail-PMilter -- which shows Sendmail::PMilter version 1.00 (nothing that I can see about any version 1.20_01 anywhere) and then clicking the 'issues' link on that page. I haven't found a way of showing a page that even mentions that there's a development release called 1.20_01 that anybody might want to look at.

      • You just need to set the "broken in" to the dev version.

      "Just." :) I've been trying to find a way to do that for an hour. I know there is a way because I stumbled upon it a few days ago and set the 'fixed in' versions to 1.20_01 for all the outstanding issues for 1.00. Unfortunately I didn't mark the path on my screen with a Chinagraph so I'm lost again.

      • If it isn't already clear, each RT queue relates to one dist, not any particular release.

      No it wasn't clear, thanks for the clarification.

      How would I even know that there's a development release if I hadn't written it and uploaded it myself?

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        the only way I've found of getting to that list of issues is by going to https://metacpan.org/release/Sendmail-PMilter -- which shows Sendmail::PMilter version 1.00 (nothing that I can see about any version 1.20_01 anywhere) and then clicking the 'issues' link on that page. I haven't found a way of showing a page that even mentions that there's a development release called 1.20_01 that anybody might want to look at.

        Again, this is because you have released sendmail-pmilter and not Sendmail-PMilter. The dev (and alas lowercase) version is here. A casual browser is indeed unlikely to find this by accident because it is in a different (lowercase) namespace.

        If I were you I would bump the version to 1.20_02 and publish a new release in the correctly-capitalised namespace and then delete the 1.20_01 from PAUSE. Then all this confusion will go away.

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        "How would I even know that there's a development release if I hadn't written it and uploaded it myself?"

        Your upload seems to have an issue. https://metacpan.org/about/missing_modules:

        Is it in the index?

        MetaCPAN uses the PAUSE-generated 02packages.details.txt file. If it's not in there, then the module author will need to fix this. (Authors are usually emailed about this when they upload a distribution).

        Also All-lowercase name.

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