On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:44:15AM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > Apologies in advance for asking a question which has probably been asked > here before. Googling didn't give fruitful results. > > The author of a CPAN distribution has discussed turning over maintenance > of that distribution to me. What is the "official" way of doing so? > > I recall being told that there was a form for this purpose at > pause.perl.org. However, none of the sub-pages at that site seemed to > answer the question. I want the switch to go in such a way that the > various indexers don't get confused.
The existing maintainer needs to log into PAUSE, then select "Change Permissions" from the menu on the left. He/she is then presented with a series of "select" buttons, and wants "2.1 Pass primary maintainership status to somebody else" Which gets to a form to select which modules to transfer. Nicholas Clark
