Add the admin indexing permission

[neilb]

Add the admin indexing permission, which will fall between first-come and co-maint:

If you have the admin permission:

• Your uploads of that package will be considered for inclusion in the index.
• You can grant co-maint to other users.
• You cannot transfer your admin permission to other users.
• You cannot grant admin to other users.
• You can give up an admin permission, in which case you get/retain co-maint
• It will appear in $CPAN/modules/06perms.txt, presumably with 'a' as the permission character.

The user with first-come on a package can grant admin to other users.

[charsbar]

IMO "admin" is rather confusing because we'll need to distinguish PAUSE admin and package admin in some situations.

And what's the real purpose of this addition? Inactive first-comes who don't respond to requests for co-maint from others are less likely to grant new admin permission to someone as well. Might it be better to discuss if we can allow an active co-maint to grant the same permission to someone?

[Grinnz]

It's reasonably common for authors with first-come to want to designate someone else to manage comaints, but without giving up their own first-come permissions which carry essentially the master bit for that namespace. Changing comaints to be able to universally add and remove other comaints would be a big change to the current assumptions of the system, IMO.

[karenetheridge]

This proposal might be easier to understand if we renamed some of the permission levels. 'first-come' really means "owner", which would be more easily understood to have higher standing than 'admin'. 'first-come' doesn't carry as much meaning to outsiders. other options: owner, manager, maintainer. yes, sorry, I'm bikeshedding...

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