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

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

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.

"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.

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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Re^16: Looking for the maintainer of Sendmail::Milter.
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jul 16, 2019 at 15:48 UTC
    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.

      Oh, dammit.

      I didn't know it used the name of the tarball for anything. I knew that it extracted the tarball ('cause that's what it says in the docs) and I guess I just assumed that it used the names of the modules that it extracted for the namespaces it was going to modify.

      What really bakes my noodle is

      http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=sendmail-pmilter%201.20_01

      which appears to have collapsed everything to lower case. At a minimum that has to be a violation of the Principle Of Least Astonishment.

      Thanks all, I'll remedy my little blunder pronto.

Re^16: Looking for the maintainer of Sendmail::Milter.
by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 16, 2019 at 15:42 UTC

    "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.