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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS-NOTE b/MAINTAINERS-NOTE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dded23 --- /dev/null +++ b/MAINTAINERS-NOTE @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Hi, this is your friendly neighbourhood co-maintainer DCANTRELL speaking. + +I persuaded the nice modules@perl.org people to make me a co-maintainer of +this module because I had patches to apply and the original author - Fabien +Tassin - seems to have gone AWOL. + +You will notice if you look at my review of Fabien's last version that I +have some criticism of his choice of interface. It is *not* my intention +to "fix" that. For better or worse, that is the current interface, and +that's the interface that plenty of existing code, mine included, is using. +To change it now after the module has been stable for so long would be +silly. + +I do not want to take Fabien's work away from him. If he shows up again +and would rather I didn't remain as a co-maintainer, then that's just fine +by me. The less code I have to maintain the better as far as I'm concerned! +I only volunteered to maintain this because I use it a lot, and I got bit +by bugs. Well, not so much bugs, as unexpected happenings. In particular, +it didn't intelligently Do The Right Thing when comparing Scalar::Properties +objects. + +If I'd thought about what an S::P object was I would have realised what was +going to happen. So anyway, when I was patching Data::Compare to be a bit +more intelligent about S::Ps, I also spotted a potential bug to do with how +Fabien had used /o on a regex match, so I fixed that too. And then because +I'd been talking about this on IRC, Anthony Fisher contributed a patch to +fix some brokenness to do with how it handled references to refernces. + +Then I added features :-) |