On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:00 AM Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > > Hi Sawyer, > > I’m writing this as one of the PAUSE admins. > > Gisle Aas has said that he will no longer be maintaining his CPAN > distributions, and that he’s happy for responsible adoption to take place. > > Chase Whitener has asked to adopt MIME::Base64[1], so he can merge some > outstanding PRs[2] and release a new version. This is a dual life > distribution, and is also far up the CPAN River — it has more than 15k > dependent distributions. In situations like this the PAUSE admins will > consult with the Pumpking and P5P — we should try to ensure that the best > candidate takes on lynchpin modules. > > From my perspective, Chase is a suitable CPAN author to take on such a > module. He already maintains three distributions that have more than 1000 > dependents, for example. > > If you’re happy with this, I propose that GAAS’s first-come permissions are > transferred to P5P, and Chase gets co-maint. If there are no disagreements by > 2020-09-19, or clear agreement ahead of then, I’ll make the proposed changes. > > What do you and P5P think? > > Neil > > [1] https://metacpan.org/release/MIME-Base64 > [2] https://github.com/gisle/mime-base64/pulls
Last year he adopted File::Slurp, another high upriver module and ensured it wouldn't break with the sysread :utf8 deprecation in 5.30; thus eliminating a major release blocker. So +1 from me. Leon
