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• Taking over maintenance (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  While I'm currently in a badly overloaded period, and not doing my shift on as a module@ person until late next month, the standard for contacting authors I generally ask people to apply is "several times over several weeks by several methods". It's not a hard and fast rule, but it works in most cases.
  
  That is, you try to contact the author a number of times by various email accounts you can find (because sometimes ones might go dark) over a period of time, and look for any other avenues you have to hunt the
  • Re:Taking over maintenance (Score:1)

    by Shlomi Fish (918) <shlomif@iglu.org.il> on 2006.03.30 5:40 (#46872) Homepage Journal

    Well, his CPAN page only contains an E-mail address, and there's another E-mail address on his module page. I sent an email to both. He doesn't list an IM account, and Skype did not exist back then, and I don't know what his telephone number is. A google search for him [google.com] returns the CPAN pages as the first two hits, and junk afterwards. A Google search for just "Arun Kumar" returns a lot of different people. So email is my only way.

    Thanks for your offer regarding buzzing your cpan.org address. Meanwhile, I'll just fix the bugs in my own version.

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    • Re:Taking over maintenance (Score:1)

      by Alias (5735)

      I do hope that means your local version, rather than forking it :)
      
      
      • Re:Taking over maintenance (Score:1)

        by Shlomi Fish (918)

        Well, it's a version that I maintain until the maintenance of the module resume. It is, however, publicly available [svn]. I do not intend it to be a fork.