Isn't there some way of taking over maintainership of an existing module when the current owner cannot be contacted ?
"if the author doesn't respond in a year, you may get maintenance by having interest"

Presumably that also applies if the current owner has died. What did you mean by "cannot be contacted"?

"Do not upload the new version under the same namespace to CPAN until the matter has been resolved with the author or CPAN."

CPAN in this case I believe would mean modules@perl.org, or, failing that, a CPAN administrator (an address can be found at the bottom of http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html).

In reply to Re^3: perlfaq candidate: "How do I adopt an abandoned module ? " by ysth
in thread perlfaq candidate: "How do I adopt an abandoned module ? " by syphilis

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