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Similarly, Perl has CPAN and system where if a module is unmaintained and the author unresponsive, new maintainers can be granted permission by admins to take o
by roywashere 5y ago
Similarly, Perl has CPAN and system where if a module is unmaintained and the author unresponsive, new maintainers can be granted permission by admins to take over. This ensures the namespace is preserved, peoples dependencies keep getting updated.
- cutemonster 5y ago> peoples dependencies keep getting updated. Updated maybe with malware sometimes? Is it unbelievable that the admins sometimes would hand over an inactive module to the wrong person? Maybe Perl is a less interesting target than npm so it works (so far) for them?