Howdy, This does not solve the problem of there not being an "abandoned" flag on CPAN, but perhaps listing it on
http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org/wiki/Main_Page would be a better interim solution that just ignoring it. Cheers, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Andy Lester<a...@petdance.com> wrote: > It would be swell if we could somehow note modules as being abandoned. > > For example, I'm a maintainer of WWW::Yahoo::Groups, because nobody took it > from Iain Truskett. It doesn't install correctly because it's out of date > and it's scraping Yahoo. Someone needs to update it if it's ever going to > work again, but that's not going to be me. I am currently getting RT mail > when people submit bugs, but I just delete them. It would be good if I > didn't get the mail, and if people knew that there was no point in > submitting bug reports anyway. > > This doesn't just apply to my case of having someone else's module. It > makes sense for any module for which the maintainer no longer has any > interest in keeping it up. > > xoxo, > Andy > > > -- > Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance > -- Jonathan Leto jonat...@leto.net http://leto.net
