On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Gaurav Vaidya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Curtis, > > On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Curtis Leach wrote: >> It's been over 3 years since the last upgrade & about 2 years since >> the >> author last said v0.05 was coming out in response to a reported bug. >> And >> his email address seems to no longer be active. So I guess it's >> safe to >> say that no one is maintaining this module any more. > The CPAN FAQ has some nice advice on this at: > http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_maintain_module > > In a nutshell: if you're interested in taking over the module > entirely, you should talk to modules at perl dot org about it. > Googling KRAL's real name (available at http://search.cpan.org/~kral/) > brought up a LinkedIn and a Facebook page, so you could try to get in > touch with him through that, and see if he's willing to make you > maintainer. Either way, it's *awesome* that you're going to make some > code available for the rest of us to use, so THANK YOU :-).
Well I was gonna suggest sticking the patch into the RT queue, but if the module author really is AWOL then modules-at-perl.org is probably your best bet. They're generally more helpful if you can show you've made an honest effort to contact the module author. -Chris _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
