On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 02:54:11PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote: > 2009/5/27 Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> > > > Burak Gürsoy <burakgur...@gmx.net> writes: > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Steffen Schwigon [mailto:s...@renormalist.net] > > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:25 AM > > >> To: Jonathan Yu > > >> Cc: module-authors@perl.org > > >> Subject: Re: Process for Removing a Module from CPAN > > >> > > >> The best and easiest thing is to contact the author of the original > > >> namespace to give you co-maintainer rights. Maybe this way you even > > >> get him involved and relight his fire. > > > > > > Come on, do you really believe what you're saying? The author will pick > > it > > > up after 12 years? A module stayed at version 0.03? Nonsense IMHO. > > > > You might be right, but even so I think it shows some respect to at > > least consider it, in contrast to speculatively assume that he will > > not be interested anyway, especially if someone wants to takeover his > > namespace... > > > Certainly that's true. Have attempts been made to contact the author? I > would have assumed that had already been tried and failed prior to even > posting here.
The original message ends : So, what's the process for having a module removed from CPAN or at : least having the namespace transferred to someone else, so that we can : create a new package and have that one installed via the CPAN shell? (it's one level of quoting above the innermost message above) Given that the original correspondent did not say "I've tried contacting the author", and stated that he wanted to know the general procedure, I strongly assume not. Nearly everyone who has contacted the author before mailing here has said so. Nicholas Clark
