On Saturday 03 Apr 2010 09:28:28 Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:01:37 -0400, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> said: > > To me, PAUSE would seem to be the right place to do it, as it doesn't > > require authors to re-release a distribution just to indicate a change > > in status. PAUSE permissions need to support "open for claiming" that > > would let the next upload by anyone claim the permissions. > > And this is the semantics of "Support Level: abandoned". > > Go to PAUSE, select "Edit Module Metadata" > > Select your module[0] > > Scroll to Support level > > Select "abandoned" > > [0] If you module is not listed, register it.
Ahem. That's easier said than done. I had tried to register a few namespaces in the past, but I didn't get any reply (inluding not an acknowledgement) and none of my namespaces were registered. At the moment on http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/ , I only have two registered namespaces and they are both of (pretty early) modules that I adopted and maintain. Eventually, I've given up on registering namespaces, because the implicit CPAN namespace ownership still gives me enough protection from abuse as long as I've originated the module[Protect]. I think that there should be a way to indicate that a module is up-for- adoption using, say, META.yml. One option would be to use one of the keywords in the keywords key: http://perl.net.au/wiki/Finding_a_Module_on_CPAN/Definitive_Tags We can say that if one of the keywords/tags is "adoptme" , then we should indicate that, and I'm all for introducing integration with more definitive tags into search.cpan.org and kobesearch.cpan.org , etc. Regards, Shlomi Fish {{{ [Protect] - this protection may often get in the way, but this is irrelevant for the discussion at hand. }}} -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
