# from David Golden # on Friday 13 February 2009 20:29: >> I really wish there were some sort of standard process drafted that >> would allow CPAN module developers to take over maintainership of >> another (abandoned) module. Perhaps there is, and I'm just not aware >> of it yet? > >There is -- it's just kind of buried on PAUSE: > > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=pause_04about#takeover
aka: http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html And comes up well enough in a web search for "take over cpan module". I understand that the step 5 "Wait for *at least* several weeks." is the hard one. You can always ship an alpha, but it will only install via the full $YOURPAUSEID/$DistName-$version.tar.gz path. --Eric -- But you can never get 3n from n, ever, and if you think you can, please email me the stock ticker of your company so I can short it. --Joel Spolsky --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
