Bug #119969 for XML-SAX: Bug 97298 impact and priority

Wed Jan 25 09:28:46 2017 john.henning [...] comcast.net - Ticket created

Subject:	Bug 97298 impact and priority
Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:27:16 -0500
To:	bug-XML-SAX [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	John Henning <john.henning [...] comcast.net>

Greetings. Thank you for XML::SAX, which is used as part of SPEC CPU (spec.org/cpu2006 <http://www.spec.org/cpu2006>) With this note, I should like to respectfully suggest that you consider increasing the priority of bug 97298, because of its potential for user confusion. When we were recently caught by it, we formed incorrect guesses, tried wrong therapies, incorrectly blamed innocent tools; we even went so far as to recompile perl itself at dash-oh-zero, where the problem persisted. Eventually, we noticed that two CDATA sections had become just one, apparently having missed the end marker; and searching led us to https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=97298 Again, thank you for your work. I mentioned SPEC's appreciation of this component, among many others, at http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/changes-in-v1.2.html#opensource <http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/changes-in-v1.2.html#opensource> -john

Wed Jan 25 13:34:58 2017 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2017-01-25 06:28:46, john.henning@comcast.net wrote: Show quoted text

> With this note, I should like to respectfully suggest that you > consider increasing the priority of bug 97298, because of > its potential for user confusion.

Hi, this is just a drive-by comment by someone who is not involved in this distribution in any way, but saw this bug appear at the top of the 'recent' queue on rt.cpan.org... I noticed that this distribution has given a permissions bit to the 'HANDOFF' user, which is documented here: http://neilb.org/2013/08/07/adoptme.html As such, it appears that perhaps this module is now suffering a dearth of active maintainers and is need of more, and it might be more likely that your bug is fixed by your own hand or a colleague's rather than one of the existing maintainers (who may have moved on to other things or even other languages). You can inquire more about the adoption process by mailing to modules@perl.org (it is a mailing list that reaches the PAUSE admins -- http://lists.perl.org/list/modules.html). good luck!

Wed Jan 25 13:34:59 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'