In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As part of preparation for a talk I'm giving at YAPC in Chicago, I've > been interviewing people who've taken over maintenance of other people's > CPAN modules. In a recent similar case, the person who was submitting > patches (a) posted the patches on rt.cpan.org and then (b) when the > original author never responded, posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The gurus > of that list designated him co-maintainer in about a day's time. > (Whether that is a general practice, I don't know, but it at least > worked in this case.) That's not the general case. In most cases we wait about a month or so. Someone not responding to email may simply be on holiday. Also, besides the potential co-maintainer contacting the author,. the PAUSE admins try it too. Often we can get a response when an author can't. If those don't work, we ask people to make some sort of public announcement of their intent to take over the module and let that sit for a couple of weeks before we do anything. I don't know which module you're talking about, but it's possible one of us got a reply from the maintainer and immediatelyl made the switch.
