Just to follow up: I sent e-mail to those who might have known Sean Cannon, and he seems to have vanished in their circle too. That doesn't make this conclusive, but I think it's more than reasonable to assign co-maintainance to whomever wants to apply patches.
--john On Mon, December 12, 2011 1:55 am, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Neil, > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:41:54 +0000 > Neil Bowers <n...@bowers.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone know how I can contact Sean Cannon? His PAUSE id is DOGER, >> and he has several dists on CPAN, including Geo::Coder::HostIP, which >> I've fixed a few bugs in. >> > > well, the web site whatever3d referred to in > https://metacpan.org/author/DODGER > is down and his email appears to point at http://www.aquest.com/ whose > owner > appears to have passed away. There also appears to be many Sean Cannons: > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Sean/Cannon . > > As a result, I think it's safe for you to try and get co-maint on the > package. > There's also this: > > http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.whatever3d.com/ > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > >> Neil >> > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman > > My opinions may seem crazy but they all make sense. Insane sense, but > sense > nonetheless. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > >