On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:18:36PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >
> > You have to contact the 'owner' directly. Only the owner can make you a
> > co-maintainer. This mailing list does not directly affect ownership.
> >
>
> The owner is not responsive, and hasn't been in quite a while. Besides, this
> email was directed towards modules@perl.org, where the CPAN administrators
> are, and from what I understood they _can_ make me a co-maintainer.
You can always upload a fork in a new name-space if you want to get
something on CPAN immediately.
If the author becomes responsive, they can choose to merge your fork, or
simply update the docs of the first branch to recommend the branch you
maintain.
Mark
