One way to help, which can be useful to authors, other comaintainers and everyone interested in the module(s) is to have a publicly hosted version control repository.

This way, you have a trunk, which is the latest pre-release version of your module; tags trees for your released versions and branches trees for development and major projects. I recommend granting read access to all, but restricting commits to known users via htpasswd.

I have recently set one up for my CPAN modules - mine and comaint. I also have some vapourware modules in there. I am willing to include other modules in there, by request.

http://www.ivorw.com/svn/cpan

If any monks want to use it, drop me a /msg.

You can always set up an SVK mirror for developing modules and patches locally - this is recommended.

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In reply to Re: Take Back Your Modules! by rinceWind
in thread Take Back Your Modules! by markjugg

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