On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 18:50 +0900, Shmuel Fomberg wrote:
> I am against the 'if I die' part. As we are all communication over the
> net, it is very difficult to know why a person have stopped
> responding.
> And it make the statement a bit scary.
>
The real problem with 'if I die' is that there is no way of knowing: the
only indication one gets is that mail is not being answered, this clause
is therefore pointless. However, having just assumed co-maintainership
of a buggy module, I support the notion - or just make it a condition of
submission to CPAN.
>
[snip]
>
> I hereby give modu...@perl.org permission to grant
> co-maintainership
> to any of my modules, if the following conditions are met:
>
> (1) I haven't released the module for a year or more
> (2) There are outstanding issues on RT which need
> addressing
> (3) Email to my CPAN email address hasn't been answered
> after a month
> (4) The requester wants to make worthwhile changes that
> will benefit CPAN
>
> Should I die, then the time-limits in (1) and (3) do not
> apply.
>
> This means it will be archived, and easily accessed. I'll put
> this in the
> README for my modules.
>
> If others, and particularly the modules cabal, think this is a
> good idea,
> maybe we could have a canonical place this this, which can be
> easily
> referred to. Perhaps PAUSE could let me record it, so there's
> one place
> the modules cabal can check? Or you could put it in module
> metadata?
>
> So, what do y'all think?
