All fine with me, thanks. I hadn't done developer releases before but I
just looked it up and it sounds like that just means putting _# at the
end of the package version number of the developer release, and then
releasing a version without the _# suffix when you're satisfied that
it's safe to do so, so I can certainly handle that for any changes that
I make.
On 4/7/26 11:07 AM, Neil Bowers wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
I'm one of the PAUSE admins.
I'm happy to transfer the first-come indexing permission for
HTML::Formatter to you, but first I wante to check that you're aware
that there are nearly 100 other distributions on CPAN which rely on
this distributions. Which means you need to be more cautious with any
releases, as if you bring HTML::Formatter, you may end up breaking
some or all of those distributions.
As a mature module, this means not changing the existing interface,
not breaking existing behaviour, and keeping an eye on CPAN Testers
whenever you do a release. And doing developer releases if you're
making changes of any complexity.
And of course, the distribution will need to retain original author
attribution and copyright / licence. You see that multiple people have
maintained it over the years.
With all that said, would like you to go ahead and adopt it?
Cheers,
Neil
