Hi Jochen, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m sorting out situations where CPAN distributions have split ownership, or missing permissions. There are a number of these situations involving your account.
The quick version of this email: if you are no longer maintaining your CPAN distributions, you can just tell me that, and I’ll sort things out. Read on for the details. Msql-Mysql-modules has 15 modules in the index. You have the first-come permission on one of them, Andreas has first-come on one other, and the rest have no indexing permission. Two of the modules are indexed against an old release, because they were dropped in more recent releases. This distribution hasn’t been released in 19 years, so I suspect you don’t plan to do any more releases. To resolve this, I propose that we (a) delete the old releases on CPAN, leaving just the most recent one from 2001, and (b) either give you first-come on all modules, or ANDK, or just mark it as available for adoption (essentially marking it as abandoned). SNMP-Monitor is similar: you have first-come on one module, and there are no indexing permissions on the rest. Again, I propose that either we mark it as available for adoption, or I can give you back all permissions. Wizard was first released by user AMAR, in 1999, and then you did two releases, also in 1999. I suggest the best thing is to give AMAR all permissions, as the originating author, unless you’re planning a comeback, 21 years later? ;-) Wizard-LDAP is similar to Wizard: you and AMAR have permissions, but there are some modules with no permissions. Having seen both of these, I’m guessing that neither you nor AMAR have any plans to do further releases, so again marking them for adoption is perhaps the best plan? I’ve copied Andreas (ANDK) and Amarendran (AMAR) on this email, so they can chip in if they would like permissions given to them. Otherwise, my guess is that you dropped your permission some years back, having decided you won’t be maintaining your CPAN distributions any more? If so, then the right thing to do is to mark all for adoption, and delete all releases that are causing conflict. How does that sound? Cheers, Neil
