Dear PAUSE Admins, I'd like to request co-maintainership of Net::Whois::IP.
Over the past five weeks I have attempted to contact the current
maintainer through multiple channels. During that time I have
developed, tested, and documented a number of fixes and enhancements
to the module arising from real-world use.
My attempts to contact the maintainer were:
May 6, 2026 - Email to the CPAN-listed address
May 13, 2026 - Follow-up email
May 14, 2026 - GitHub issue opened
May 27, 2026 - CPAN issue opened
I have received no response to any of these communications.
I would prefer to work with the original author and would be happy to
coordinate maintenance should he reappear. However, I would also like
these fixes to become available to the wider Perl community through
CPAN rather than remaining in a private local fork.
Original author's PAUSE ID: BSCHMITZ
My PAUSE ID: JSEYMOUR
To document my efforts to contact the maintainer, I have attached
copies of the emails sent on May 6 and May 13. I have also attached
my proposed Changes file and included below the URLs for the GitHub
and CPAN issue tracker postings made in an effort to reach the
maintainer publicly.
GitHub issues tracker post:
https://github.com/neb14/NetWhoisIP/issues/3
CPAN issues tracker post:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=178091
Regards,
Jim Seymour
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