On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Dave Rolsky <auta...@urth.org> wrote:
> That said, I do think we give original authors a little too much control > here. In the case where the author has stopped releasing things to CPAN, > insisting that we try to track them down personally outside of using the > existing bug reporting mechanisms seems a little much. > > I'm not sure how we can best have that conversation as a community. We'd much rather have a long-absent author voluntarily hand over permissions or give PAUSE admins an assent for a takeover than doing it by executive fiat. If something has been broken for a long time, an extra few weeks won't really matter one way or another. And if you think about it from the PAUSE admin perspective... a petitioner not willing to do some legwork – whether because they don't care about the original author's feelings or don't want to do the work or whatever else – isn't a good indicator of someone to take over long-term stewardship on behalf of the community. In any case, following the direction of the Berlin Consensus, it seems like the cpan-workers mailing list is the right venue for a discussion about those guidelines, possibly leading to discussion at a future Perl QA hackathon. Neil has expressed some interest in exploring a "one-off fix" process, with a temporary takeover, a fix released to CPAN, and a release of permissions to ADOPTME or something like that. You might want to brainstorm ideas with him and develop a proposal for discussion. David
