Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact that they made their contribution in the first place, and > people found it useful, seems like it should be honored rather than > vilified.
I agree fully. > That said, there ought to be a way for the community to move forward > without having the original author be the bottleneck. Maybe it is just a little thing, but it might be a small step forward: how about adding a CPAN flag indicating the author has given up interest in maintaining a specific module? This makes it easy for an author to formally give up a module, without having to find a new maintainer first, which may be a tedious process. Should, in some later stage, anyone be interested in taking over maintainenance she is free to do so. -- Johan
