Hi, one of the members of Israel.pm - Ariel Brosh - has passed away a couple of month ago. With Oded Reznik, a previous employer and friend of him we have discussed that we should make sure his modules on CPAN are going to be in good hands. I volunteered to take care of this.
Ariels CPAN id was SCHOP, he had 14 distributions, one of them was registered. See http://search.cpan.org/author/SCHOP There are two issues: 1) I'd like to keep his CPAN id alive and in his directory write a few lines, probably in a README file mentioning that he has passed away and that his modules are now maintained by other people. How can I do this ? - Naturally I don't know his password. 2) I'd like to know how can someone take over his modules ? Is this only a matter of uploading a higher version to the home directory of the new maintainer ? In the CPAN FAQ there is an entry "How do I go about maintaining a module when the author is unresponsive?" but I did not see whom should I contact at CPAN in order to resolve this matter in case the original maintainer is not responding.... Once I understand this I'll announce the availability of the modules so anyone who is interested will be able to take them over. The remaining modules probably I (SZABGAB) will take over temporarily in case there are requests for bug fixes and/or to make the next transition easier. regards Gabor Szabo Israel.pm - http://www.perl.org.il/
