Dear PAUSE admins,
I find HTML::TableContentParser https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-TableContentParser useful for web-scraping ad-hocery. It has not tested successfully since Perl 5.10.0 came out, but the fix is trivial, and the problem is with the test, not the module itself. I filed RT #32010 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=32010 way back when, but more recently I thought perhaps I could adopt the module. So last July I forked it on GitHub https://github.com/trwyant/perl-HTML-TableContentParser , applied the patches of interest to me, and updated the RT ticket to reflect my willingness to do a release. I followed up with a letter to the author, without response. I then tried to find the author via Google, and found a reasonable candidate on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/simondrabble . I have no LinkedIn account, so on September 17 2017 I asked an intermediary to make the contact for me. The response said that the "reasonable candidate" was in fact the author of the subject module, and that he no longer maintained it. The response was silent on willingness to grant co-maintainer status. On September 26 my intermediary asked him to contact me at my PAUSE address (wyant at cpan dot org). Since then neither of us has heard anything. I acknowledge that this is almost the most difficult case -- the author has been located and expressed the intent not to maintain the module, but has not expressed willingness to grant co-maintainership. Or unwillingness, or anything else. Can you recommend any further steps I should take? Or are you willing to grant co-maintainer status to PAUSE ID WYANT based on what I have already done? Or should I do something else entirely? I am willing to fork and re-issue under a different name, but that seems to me a less-than-desirable solution. With thanks, Tom Wyant (PAUSE ID WYANT)
