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Posted by Sisyphus on July 29, 2007, 7:55 am
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm disappointed to see CPAN's total lack of a resolution policy if
> authors of buggy (but otherwise useful) modules become unresponsive, so
> I'm posting here as I have no idea what else I can do. I've been unable
> to contact the authors of the two modules listed in the subject by their
> CPAN listed e-mail address (after waiting weeks), and I've found very
> nasty bugs in both their modules. What can I do to get them fixed? At
> the moment, I'm having to maintain a local copy of both of these modules
> because I can't use the buggy vesions currently up on CPAN.
>
Often when authors become unresponsive it means that they have abandoned the
module. However, it seems that the CGI::Simple author (Andy Armstrong) is
still actively maintaining that module - it was updated just over a
fortnight ago. How have you tried to contact him ?
Some things to do in order to attract the attention of an author are to :
1) submit a bug report to rt.cpan.org (
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=CGI-Simple ) - for which
you'll need a Bitcard or PAUSE account;
2) contact the author via email at the address given in the module's
documentation;
3) post to http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/CGI-Simple (as the author seems to
have subscribed)
There *is* a procedure one can go thru to take over the maintainership of an
abandoned module (and it looks like CGI::Alert may have been abandoned as
there's no sign of activity from that module's author for about 3 years).
However, whilst I'm sure I've seen accounts of what that procedure is, I'm
damned if I can find it ... which is annoying. If you search you may well
find it ... I'm hopelesss when it comes to finding stuff :-)
Cheers,
Rob
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