[pm-h] CPAN adoption list

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:18:55 -0700 (PDT)
"Michael R. Davis" <mrdvt92 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > From: B. Estrade <estrabd at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:49 AM
> >
> > I found this, if you're interested in helping out and potentially
> > adopting. http://neilb.org/adoption/index.html
> 
> I noticed that there is a flag for "Up for Adoption".  How do I
> flag the packages that I no longer use as "Up for Adoption".  I did
> not see anywhere in PAUSE to do that.  I guess the hard part is
> knowing if anyone is really using your packages, If I knew that they
> were worthless then, I'd just delete them.

If you want someone to join as co-maintainer but keep ownership or you
want to have some say in whether or not someone takes over, you add the
special user ADOPTME as a co-maintainer of the module.

If you want someone to take over and are willing to have the PAUSE
admins turn it over without you, add the special user HANDOFF as a
co-maintainer of the module.

G. Wade

> Most of the packages up for adoption most likely need to be
> re-written as wrappers of supported packages.  Like File-Slurp should
> most likely be re-released as wrapper for Path::Class::File->slurp or
> any of the other 20 slurp packages.
> 
> However, I  tried to adopt HTML-CalendarMonthSimple but never did get
> it done officially. So, my release is flagged as "** UNAUTHORIZED
> RELEASE **"
> 
> Mike   
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