On 24 Aug 2006, at 08:09, Johan Vromans wrote:
Maybe it is just a little thing, but it might be a small step forward: how about adding a CPAN flag indicating the author has given up interest in maintaining a specific module? This makes it easy for an author to formally give up a module, without having to find a new maintainer first, which may be a tedious process. Should, in some later stage, anyone be interested in taking over maintainenance she is free to do so.
I'm trying to track down an author at the moment who I'm fairly sure has abandoned the module in question. A mechanism like that would be a huge help to me.
If something like that existed it'd be useful also to be able to get a list of all the abandoned modules.
-- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
