add UPSTREAM flag to Maintainers.pl??

[Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>]

Here's a suggestion:

Lets add an extra field to the %Modules hash in Maintainers.pl that
indicates for dual-lived modules (ie CPAN => 1), whether fixes should be
applied directly to bleed or to be pushed upstream first.

ie

    UPSTREAM => undef	# unknown (like at present)
    UPSTREAM => 0	# author thinks changes should go directly to bleed
    UPSTREAM => 1	# author happy to apply changes upsteam first
    				and make timely new releases that can be
				merged into bleed

Setting it anything other than undef implies that we have had some sort
of dialogue with the author about this.

At the very least this could be manually checked by porters before
applying patches, and perhaps at some point be used by an automatic script
to check the status of modules etc.

-- 
But Pity stayed his hand. "It's a pity I've run out of bullets",
he thought. -- "Bored of the Rings"

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Follow-Ups from:

Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl@gmx.net>
demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>

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