On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM Neil Bowers <ne...@neilb.org> wrote:
> I'm writing this email in my capacity as a PAUSE admin. > > As many of you will be aware, we have a process which is triggered when a > CPAN author passes away. There are a number of actions, but one is to mark > all of their distributions as available for adoption. If you look at > ZEFRAM's author page on MetaCPAN (https://metacpan.org/author/ZEFRAM) > you'll see there are 75 distributions. > > When a distribution is available for adoption, the PAUSE admins should > consider the river position of a distribution, the experience of people > asking for ownership, and any other relevant factors. At one of the PTS[1] > gatherings, we also agreed that for far-upriver distributions, the admins > should be proactive to find a new maintainer (e.g. from the pool of people > who rely on a distribution, or who are already maintaining a similar or > complementary distribution), and not just assign it to the first person who > requests it. > > And if a distribution includes one or more core modules, then P5P comes > into play. For example, Math::Complex is a core module, and ZEFRAM was the > last person to do a CPAN release, in 2012. Where a module has P5P with the > first-come indexing permission, then it's the responsibility of the PSC to > decide co-maints, not the PAUSE admins. > > One module that stands out is Module::Runtime, which isn't a core module, > but is one of our keystone distributions. There are more than 10k CPAN > distributions which depend on this. The last release was in 2017, and while > there is no immediate urgency, it would be good to find a new maintainer. > > It would be good to hand this over to a new maintainer, but there's no > rush. A reminder that if you're interested in adopting a distribution, the > first step is usually to contact the current maintainer. But if you can't, > or if the previous maintainer has marked it as available for adoption, then > you should email the PAUSE admins: modules@perl.org > > Neil > Hi Neil and others, I think I'm the best person to adopt Crypt::Eksblowfish and Authen::Passphrase as they're both in my area of expertise. Leon
