Two weeks ago I emailed FTASSIN: > Would you be happy for me to have co-maint, or even to take over the > first-come permission for your Data::HexDump perl module, which you last > released to CPAN in September 1999?There are 4 bugs open for it, and it > doesn’t follow a number of recent CPAN conventions, but it does have 9 other > CPAN distributions dependent on it, so I was wondering if I could take it > over, fix the bugs, and release a new version?
Then a week ago I wrote: > This email to his PAUSE address bounced.There’s another email address in the > doc, but that bounced too.I’ve sent messages to the three Fabien Tassins > known to LinkedIn.So far one has replied, with "I don’t know what you’re > talking about" :-) > Given FTASSIN hasn’t released anything since 1999, I think this is fine for a > first-come transfer, but I’ll wait a bit longer. In the meantime, I’m going > to do a developer release I’ve failed to contact him. I’ve given myself co-maint, so I can do a release which fixes all outstanding bugs. Neil
