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Description
It is intolerably hard to declare that you don't want to deal with a CPAN module anymore. No matter what, it just sits there under your name, inviting bug reports, no matter how many times you say "No, I'm done." (It's even worse if you're only co-maint, but that's another matter.)
One accepted but basically unsupported solution is to use special permissions users to indicate the idea that you want to transfer permissions away, or just get more hands at work. Unfortunately, nobody benefits from this, because nobody can tell they've been assigned unless they go look in 06perms, which is far, far more than anyone should be expected to do.
It would be useful if the MetaCPAN web site would throw up a big notice like:
- ADOPTME: This distribution is up for adoption! Contact the modules list if you want to take over.
- HANDOFF: This distribution's maintainer is looking for someone to take over! Contact them…