On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:19:26PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > I recognize that CPAN is a volunteer effort, but it does seem to me there > is a implicit responsibility on the part of the author to maintain the > module going forward, or to pass the baton to someone else. Call it a Best
Is there an easy central visible way to flag up a module as "up for adoption"? What should have been the right list to ask that question on? > Practice, if you will. The end-user simply wants the module to work. > Maintainers not paying attention, and the subsequent bitrot that is > appearing on CPAN, is one of Perl's biggest problems at the moment. > Careful attention and responsiveness to CPAN testers and to rt.cpan.org is > the best cure for this. Alternatively, I could just not upload code to CPAN, and not have this problem. You're right that it's a problem. I'm not convinced that your cure will work with all real world volunteers. Nicholas Clark
