The current and previous maintainer approve, on this thread. We could
wait for the third (earliest) maintainer / author to respond, since
they’re on the thread, too. I defer to the list on that point.

 - R.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> wrote:
> Has the author been contacted to request adoption of this distribution? That
> is part of the adoption process, unless it has already been established that
> the author is missing or deceased.
>
> All of Adam's distributions have already been imported from subversion to
> github, e.g.: https://github.com/TheOpenRepository/File-Remove
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Jonas Brømsø Nielsen <jona...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Philippe,
>>
>> I did not say it was the optimal solution - but what brings the most
>> value? - live working code or broken unmaintained artefacts of yesteryear?
>>
>> I have migrated a lot of Subversion repos to Github, some were in an
>> almost unmigratable state, due to bad decisions on repository layout and
>> gitpan saved these distributions and I could get back to active maintenance
>> instead of spending all my time trying to salvage history of old bug fixes.
>> The changes file and distribution release history provided sufficient
>> information to keep me happy and still draw the same picture of what was
>> released to the public via CPAN.
>>
>> If possible, migrate - if time or other circumstances block - gitpan is an
>> alternative solution.
>>
>> Happy New Year :-)
>>
>> jonasbn
>> --
>> Twitter: @jonasbn
>>
>> > Den 4. jan. 2016 kl. 22.41 skrev Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
>> > <philippe.bru...@free.fr>:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:21:01PM +0100, Jonas Brømsø Nielsen wrote:
>> >> Hi Shlomi,
>> >>
>> >> A sane alternative to Subversion migration could be starting out from
>> >> gitpan:
>> >>
>> >> https://github.com/gitpan/File-Remove
>> >> <https://github.com/gitpan/File-Remove>
>> >
>> > But that replaces the full history with the history of whatever was
>> > released.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
>> >
>> > Eliminate a problem before it eliminates you!
>> >                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #65
>> > (Epic))
>
>

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