Hi, I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m emailing you wearing that hat.
The XML-XPathScript distribution was originally created by Matt; Dominique then did 5 releases; since 2005 Yanick has done 24 releases. Chris (PERIGRIN) doesn’t seem to have done any releases, but he has the first-come indexing permission on the lead module (XML::XPathScript), and YANICK has first-come on the others. The rest of you have co-maint on the (other) modules. The fractured ownership means that no single person could grant co-maint to someone else, or transfer ownership to a new maintainer. PAUSE tries hard now to not this happen[1], so I’m tidying up the historical cases. The default rule is that whoever has first-come on the lead module should get it on the rest, but I suspect here that it would make more sense for YANICK to get first-come on XML::XPathScript — is that ok? Cheers, Neil [1] http://neilb.org/2020/07/24/inconsistent-permissions.html
