On 2010-04-03, at 7:03 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David Golden
> # on Friday 02 April 2010 06:01:
>
>>> On Mar 31, 2:51 am, [email protected] (Tim Bunce) wrote:
>>>> It would be handy if there was a way for authors to indicate that
>>>> new maintainers are sought. Perhaps via the META.yaml/(.json) file.
>>> ...
>> It's not in the CPAN META spec ...
>>
>> To me, PAUSE would seem to be the right place to do it, as it doesn't
>> require authors to re-release a distribution just to indicate a change
>> in status.
>
> That was my first thought. If you've had life happen to you, what are
> the chances that you'll have the time to repackage 20-odd distributions
> just to add a line to the META.yml (and further, what are the chances
> that your trunk hasn't changed since the last release)?
Perhaps an easier way for authors in this category is to change the S (Support
Level) field in the dslip file:
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/faqs/dslip.html
to
a - Abandoned, the module has been abandoned by its author
through the PAUSE interface:
https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=edit_mod
and PAUSE then handles the updating.
--
best regards,
Randy
