Re^3: "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

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Agreed; CPAN is a lot more useful for me when tools like Git make forking and patching so much easier. Eric Wilhelm's SVN for CPAN would have been nice several years ago.

Obviously the responsiveness of maintainers is still important (and perhaps my worst failing as a CPAN author) but actively encouraging collaboration would be amazing. To the credit of many people, CPAN has improved dramatically in this respect as of late.