Emailing the authors of modules who's last release was 10+ years ago seems like a sensible first step. Especially if there is a clear list of next steps (i.e. give it up for adoption). Possibly this should be a normal part of PAUSE.
Judging by other responses so far, going further will prove controversial. At a minimum there would have to be no "fresh" cpan modules that depend on it. In situations where there is a clear and superior successor there may be more traction too. Dean On 2015-05-01 08:10, Neil Bowers wrote: > I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to > follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for > example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in > 1995) for example, and he agreed that it should be removed from CPAN. > > I had a look at all the dists that were last released in 1995 and wrote up my > thoughts on them: > > http://neilb.org/2015/04/30/curating-old-releases.html [1] > > Where people think dists shouldn't be removed, I'm happy to try adopt them to > release minimal updates, where I'm able to. > > I'm interested to hear what others think. > > Neil Links: ------ [1] http://neilb.org/2015/04/30/curating-old-releases.html
