Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-12 Thread Ben Deutsch
Hello folks, I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? perldoc -q module or perldoc perlfaq7 I also recall a blog post by Brian D Foy on the subject of adoptation:

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-12 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Matt Simerson m...@tnpi.net [2013-05-11 06:30]: I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_adopt_module

Re: Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-11 Thread James E Keenan
On 5/11/13 12:26 AM, Matt Simerson wrote: I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? perldoc -q module or perldoc perlfaq7

Taking over maintenance of a module

2013-05-10 Thread Matt Simerson
I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that? The module Net::SMTP::TLS was last released in 2006 by Alexander Westholm awesth...@verizon.net. I attempted to contact Alex at that email but the