On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:43 PM, <yan...@babyl.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:27:04PM +0000, Neil Bowers wrote: > > Interesting thought. How about: > > > > - if a distribution author appears to be inactive, then the author > would receive an email to their registered > > CPAN email address saying "this distro appears to be inactive, > just reply to this email to let me know otherwise". > > That's the tricky part where the the system has not to be too spammy. > For peeps with one or two dists, it's not an issue. For the CPAN titans > who are owning hundreds of distributions, we... probably don't want to > send an email for every module. We should have at most an aggregated > reminder every X weeks, and allow for the author to see/select her > distros in a single, easy way. > > How about just do it by author - if any of the author's distros are idle for 6 months, send them an email?