Re: Takeover etiquette

Hi Alberto,

> What is the takeover etiquette?
> How many e-mails should I try to send the author?
> How many time should I wait for an answer?
> 
> To make things worse, the author has just that module, with latest release one year ago (7 jul 2015)

Here’s the official description on PAUSE:
http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#takeover <http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#takeover>

I wrote a blog post a few years back, where I tried to be more specific on the steps:
http://neilb.org/2013/07/24/adopt-a-module.html <http://neilb.org/2013/07/24/adopt-a-module.html>

My executive summary would be:
Raise an issue on the dist saying (a) what it is you’d like changed, and why; and (b) explicitly offer to “help out”, if given co-maint.
If there’s a repo, do a pull request (if you get to where you’re asking the PAUSE Admins for co-maint, you can refer to this and say “here’s my repo, where I fixed X and Y”)
If neither of the above works, send an email to the author, cc’ing modules@perl.org <mailto:modules@perl.org>. Explicitly ask for co-maint, and say that if you haven’t heard anything in a month, then you’ll ask the PAUSE admins to give you co-maint.
If you get no reply to that, or it bounces, have a look for other email addresses: sometimes they’re a different address will be listed in the AUTHOR section of the pod. Look for her or him on LinkedIn, google them, email to module-authors@perl.org <mailto:module-authors@perl.org>
Two weeks after that email, try again, if you have a working email address.
A month after the original email where you cc’d the PAUSE admins, send email to the PAUSE admins, cc’ing the author, asking for co-maint and outlining which of the above steps you did. Ie demonstrate due diligence.

Cheers,
Neil

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