Permissions issues like this can be resolved if you send an email to modules@perl.org, and provide documentation that the owner(s) of the module give their consent.
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:10 PM, John M Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com> wrote: > On 4/30/2015 5:10 PM, 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 > > 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 > > > This brought back some frustrated memories. I tried to take over > Math::Brent, for the purpose of upgrading the package and fixing an error. > I managed to locate John Williams, who was fine with it -- but who then > couldn't grant me co-maintenance because PAUSE didn't have him as the owner > (I checked, and all of his modules at that time were co-owned by another > user, although only one had been worked on). > > At that point he didn't feel like proceeding further, and I didn't feel > like making an issue of it, especially if the other user was going to make > the fixes anyway. > > It's now two years later. The other user doesn't seem to have ownership > anymore, but Math::Brent is still has an outstanding bug. > > I'm still interested in being a co-maintainer. For that matter, I'd be > interested in co-maintaining Math::Fortran and Math::Derivative, although I > would probably retire the Math::Fortran name for something like Math::Util. > > -john >
