I know I'm guilty of disappearing for extended periods myself. I understand that family, jobs, life can give people less time to contribute to open source projects. But it's somewhat concerning that a lot of major CPAN authors who have written some pretty useful modules seem to be disappearing lately. None of the following authors have made a release in the last 12 months:

• ADAMK - Params::Util, DBD::SQLite
• DOY - Eval::Closure
• FLORA - Term::ReadLine
• KENTNL - HTML::Tree
• MSCHILLI - Log::Log4perl
• MSCHWERN - Test::More, Method::Signatures
• NUFFIN - KiokuDB, Try::Tiny
• RCLAMP - File::Find::Rule, Pod::Coverage
• RSRCHBOY - MooseX::AttributeShortcuts
• STEVAN - Moose
• TIMB - DBI, Devel::NYTProf
• SIMONW - Module::Pluggable

(Honorable mentions to INGY, DAGOLDEN, and RSAVAGE who have barely released anything in the last 12 months.)

Many of their projects have gotten new maintainers, and there are always new CPAN authors coming up and releasing some great new things, but we do seem to be losing some key people who have made important contributions to the Perl ecosystem.