RE: what to do with dead camels ?

[Elizabeth Mattijsen]

At 08:58 -0500 8/4/03, Andy Lester wrote:
At 10:34 AM +0400 8/4/03, Konovalov, Vadim wrote:
 > I wouldn't mind there being something in PAUSE that says "you have to
 touch the module once a year."  I don't mean worthless updates, like
but how do you distinguish cases when module does not need updates, just
because it does not needs to be updated (still in a good shape)?
one-year cycle is not long enough.
There would be something in PAUSE that would allow the author to say 
"I'm still here".  The module itself need not change.
This could be as simple as sending an email once a month to the CPAN 
id's mail address and set a flag when it has bounced.  Maybe once a 
year you would like the author to actually reply to make sure the 
mail isn't going into some bitbucket.

Maybe something that Siesta can do as soon as it knows how to VERP...  ;-)

Liz