I've noticed that quite a few modules have maintainers, who take over when an author goes AWOL. What is the process for for achieving that?
The module Net::SMTP::TLS was last released in 2006 by Alexander Westholm <awesth...@verizon.net>. I attempted to contact Alex at that email but the message bounced. I did find that Alexander has a GitHub account (https://github.com/alexwestholm), and I found a vanity email address within some published files (a...@alexwestholm.com), but alas, his domain expired and has been picked up by squatters. I have also found Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained, which is almost exactly the same, save for the current author Fayland Lam having forked Net::SMTP::TLS and applied a number of contributed patches, and pushed out subsequent releases. Tonight, I forked his fork, applied a patch that corrects some SMTP behavior, and within hours he had merged the patch and published a new release. The old Net:SMTP::TLS is badly broken in several ways, so there's no good reason someone would prefer it. So I asked Fayland about it, and the thread is below. Thanks, Matt On May 10, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Fayland Lam <fayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > No response. tried few times. but it was 2 years ago and 1 year ago I think. > > do you know him? > > Thanks > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Matt Simerson <m...@tnpi.net> wrote: >> >> Did you attempt to contact Alexander? >> >> What was the result? >> >> Matt >> >> On May 10, 2013, at 8:11 PM, Fayland Lam <fayl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I tried to ask it in modules@perl twice but not got approved. so I do >>> not have any other choice. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Matt Simerson <m...@tnpi.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Rather than having a separate fork, why not just take over maintenance of >>>> Net::SMTP::TLS? There seems to be a lot of CPAN now has maintainers >>>> taking over for abandoned modules. >>>> >>>> Matt >>> >>> -- >>> Fayland Lam // http://www.fayland.org/
