2009/5/27 Steffen Schwigon <[email protected]> > Burak Gürsoy <[email protected]> writes: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Steffen Schwigon [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:25 AM > >> To: Jonathan Yu > >> Cc: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: Process for Removing a Module from CPAN > >> > >> The best and easiest thing is to contact the author of the original > >> namespace to give you co-maintainer rights. Maybe this way you even > >> get him involved and relight his fire. > > > > Come on, do you really believe what you're saying? The author will pick > it > > up after 12 years? A module stayed at version 0.03? Nonsense IMHO. > > You might be right, but even so I think it shows some respect to at > least consider it, in contrast to speculatively assume that he will > not be interested anyway, especially if someone wants to takeover his > namespace...
Certainly that's true. Have attempts been made to contact the author? I would have assumed that had already been tried and failed prior to even posting here.
