On 26 February 2018 at 12:05, Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 02/23/2018 08:54 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: >> Please, please be careful who you transfer permissions to -- "any >> interested person" leaves open the possibility that someone meaning >> well could take over who is not sufficiently qualified to maintain >> modules of such importance to the Perl ecosystem. > > Agreed. > >> >> If you wish to give up first-come permissions entirely, I would >> suggest giving first-come to one of the PAUSE admins or the pumpking, >> who can suitably vet any successors. > > Furthermore, any module that is dual-core should have at least two > maintainers (or at least two co-maints). If you can also add "P5P" to > those, it would allow p5p to make releases when either one or both are > not available. Is there a reason we dont just make Perl upstream for Memoize and Tie::File and move these modules from cpan/ to dist/? Then neither of these concerns are material. The perl5porters would handle them. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next