jagh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've written a module for $work with the intention to upload to CPAN. Registered a separate PAUSE account for my employer, and submitted the proposal for inclusion in the Module List about a month ago. Since then, the proposal has received no response. This has happened to me once before, when I tried to use the Sys:: namespace in a module name. Resubmitted with a different name and a note, which worked. I'm not sure what's wrong with this particular module though, and I don't know who to ask (other than PM, of course).

Is there a person or mailing list I can ask about the module?

Alternatively, is there something obviously wrong with the following submission?

The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:

  modid:       Net::iContact
  DSLIP:       adpOp
  description: OO interface to the iContact API
  userid:      ICONTACT (iContact Corporation) 
  chapterid:   15 (World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI) 
  communities:

  similar:    

  rationale:

   The root namespace and chapter choice are based on existing CPAN
   modules such as Net::eBay, Net::Akismet, etc.

   The module itself is unique to CPAN. Around December 2006 CHOLLOWAY
   requested a PAUSE account intending to upload
   Business::IntelliContact (IntelliContact is now iContact), but the
   module does not exist on CPAN (yet?).

  enteredby:   ICONTACT (iContact Corporation)
  enteredon:   Thu Oct 25 17:50:58 2007 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Net::
::iContact    adpOp OO interface to the iContact API          ICONTACT

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Re: Things to do when a module submission is Warnock'ed?
by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Nov 29, 2007 at 14:55 UTC

    Well, you start by writing to the PAUSE admins at modules@perl.org (the from address that mail you've posted) to tell us we missed something. I've found your module request and taken care of it. There's nothing else you need to do.

    If there's something wrong with a module registration, we tell you. If you don't hear anything and it's not registered, it just fell through the cracks.

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Re: Things to do when a module submission is Warnock'ed?
by salva (Canon) on Nov 29, 2007 at 14:53 UTC

    The "modules" mailing list has too much traffic, and requests sometimes fall unnoticed without response because the volunteers attending it can not cope with all the mail. Repost, and your request will probably be attended this time.

    You can also just upload your module to CPAN, being approved nowadays means almost nothing. Or if you want to have some discussion first about the name you have selected or any other thing related to your module, post a question here, in PerlMonks, or to the "module-authors" mailing list.

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      The modules list does not have too much traffic. It's very low traffic in fact. It has nothing to do with the volume of mail. When I look at the mail, it's specially tagged and highlighted for me for the requests that come in from the forms.

      The thing that causes the problem is the PAUSE admins all being on vacation at the same time, or all being extemely busy at the same time. Usually that's not the case, but sometimes it all aligns. The admins also divide the work among themselves informally. I don't deal at all with new user stuff, and other people don't deal with new module stuff. Steffen is dealing with the database purging on his own, so he handles all of that. No one is contending with an overwhelming amount of mail to look through.

      Normally I have a program that checks for unhandled requests. Around that time it broke because the latest versions of DBM::Deep aren't backwards compatible with the database format. I stopped using it for a bit around that time.

      So, watch out before you start making assumptions about why things happened. We missed this one, but not because we can't handle ten messages a day. Be careful with your accusations: you're talking about real people.

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        Be careful with your accusations: you're talking about real people.
        That's what they want us to think!
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Re: Things to do when a module submission is Warnock'ed?
by jagh (Monk) on Nov 29, 2007 at 14:48 UTC
    aaaand all of an hour later, it's approved. Uncanny.
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      you have answered your own question!
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