I've studied all the relevant PAUSE documents, and the very useful perlmodstyle. Much of it is pretty fuzzy, but one issue is especially unclear, so I hope someone can clear it up.

In separate sections of the docs there are stern warnings against:</P.

  1. putting your module in the root namespace
  2. arbitrarily assigning yourself namespace territory

And now i can't work out which is the lesser evil. I know there was some debate about this a while ago (on p5p?) but I don't know if the proper course was ever established.

The best thing seems to be to upload with the name I think it should have and then write to modules@ explaining that this is tentative and asking for feedback before making a formal namespace request. Does that sound right to you?

It's also quite hard to work out the best place for a bit of peer review. This isn't quite it, I think: 100 lines of code and 300 lines of pod aren't going to go over all that well in sopw.

So any suggestions for arenas in which to enjoy a bit of constructive humiliation would be most useful. It's an HTML:: sort of thing. Maybe. modperl list?

thanks.

In reply to cpan etiquette by thpfft

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