Please help me restore my faith in CPAN.

Sorry, no can do. CPAN is just a group of people and there's no reason you should have faith in all of them! In fact, some of them aren't going to help you. (Yes self, I'm looking at you. You can be a terrible maintainer!)

Instead, you should learn to have faith in particular CPAN authors. Some of them are fantastic - responsive to the most minute and superficial problem. Some of them aren't.

But don't worry - CPAN doesn't have the single-point of failure you seem to think it does. If you have an improvement that isn't getting accepted you have an easy remedy - fork the code and release your new version. If the module is truly abandoned you can even take it over and release under the same name. Then you'll be in the position to inspire faith in others by your awesome example! Open source software didn't get where it is today by letting the inconsistencies of bad maintainers slow it down.

-sam

In reply to Re: Losing faith in CPAN - unresponsive module authors by samtregar
in thread Losing faith in CPAN - unresponsive module authors by andreas1234567

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