Re: ZEFRAM's CPAN distributions

[Leon Timmermans]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM Neil Bowers  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

Re: ZEFRAM's DateTime modules

[Dan]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM Dan  wrote:

> I do not have any current plans to make new releases of these modules
> other than to fix the Data::Pond issue and update Time::OlsonTZ::Data when
> it is next required. I will also note that Time::OlsonTZ::Data appears to
> have an automatic release process when the Olson timezone database updates,
> and I do not know whether it will continue to attempt making releases.
>

As suspected, the automatic release process has continued for now,
releasing Time-OlsonTZ-Data-0.202502. I'm not sure the appropriate way to
handle this but at least we should not remove permissions from ZEFRAM for
this module until it is sorted out.

-Dan

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