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I'm not sure where you got your information, but it's not how we do things at PAUSE. If we transfer a module because the original author is absent, we usually transfer primary maintainship. It's easy to re-arrange if the author shows up later. We're also very careful about this, so "promptly" means about a month between when we try to contact the author ourselves and we actually make the transfer.

Each case is different, however, but that's generally how we do things.

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Re^6: perlfaq candidate: "How do I adopt an abandoned module ? "
by grinder (Bishop) on Jul 30, 2007 at 15:27 UTC
    I'm not sure where you got your information, but it's not how we do things at PAUSE. If we transfer a module because the original author is absent, we usually transfer primary maintainship.

    Merely by looking at the modules I've seen taken over by me or others in the past year or so have always been co-maint, even for authors AWOL. I guess I've drawn an inference from statistically flawed information :)

    And yes, "promptly" did mean "about a month" (rather than "a year", as stated in the faq). Again, going by experience.

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