Re: net_whois maintainership

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Ken Guest <ken@linux.ie> wrote: > lo Seamus and fellow QA Team members ;-) > > I've just created a patch for giving net_whois the ability to retrieve > authorative information on a domain, in the scenario where > humorous subdomains have been entered elsewhere. > > for example if you do a barebones look up of facebook.com  or > answers.com  you will see various "server name" entries that obviously > aren't registered by either Facebook, Inc or the Answers Corporation. > My patch takes care of this issue by performing 2 additional lookups > and allows the user to specifiy whether or not this should occur. > > As maintainer I'd implement the [other] outstanding feature request > and takeover addressing any issue that might arise with the package. > > Seamus - have you any objection to this? I know net_whois is marked as > orphaned, but you are not marked as inactive either and I'd rather not > presume that you no longer have any interest in the package. > http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Net_Whois/trunk/package.xml?view=log The last release was a QA release / marked as orphaned under package 2.0 upgrade plan. So... go Ken go!