Requesting co-maint on Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber (author unresponsive so far)

[David Precious]

[Re-sending this mail originally sent on 10th July, as I realised I
didn't include module-auth...@perl.org...]


Hi,

I'm trying to reach Hideo Kimura (HIDE) to discuss maintainership of the
Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber dist:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber

It hasn't been updated since 2010, and HIDE hasn't released anything
since 2012, so it seems likely that he is no longer active in Perl.

I raised an issue on his GitHub repo on 2023-06-14 offering a new
feature, and offering to take on maintainership if he'd be willing:
https://github.com/hidek/Catalyst-Plugin-HTML-Scrubber/issues/1

I then raised a pull request implementing the feature on 2023-06-20:
https://github.com/hidek/Catalyst-Plugin-HTML-Scrubber/pull/2

I've tried emailing the two email addresses I can find for him
publicly on 2023-06-20 with no response so far.

I believe https://www.linkedin.com/in/hideo-kimura-b6b6abb is him, I've
sent a connection request on 2023-06-28 but no reaction.

I haven't been able to find any other contact details so far.

I'd appreciate if anyone has any other method to contact Hideo, and/or
if we can't reach him, if one of the PAUSE admins would consider giving
me co-maint on it so I can get a new version out.

Cheers

David Precious (BIGPRESH)

Requesting co-maint on Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber (author unresponsive so far)

[David Precious]

Hi,

I'm trying to reach Hideo Kimura (HIDE) to discuss maintainership of the
Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber dist:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::Plugin::HTML::Scrubber

It hasn't been updated since 2010, and HIDE hasn't released anything
since 2012, so it seems likely that he is no longer active in Perl.

I raised an issue on his GitHub repo on 2023-06-14 offering a new
feature, and offering to take on maintainership if he'd be willing:
https://github.com/hidek/Catalyst-Plugin-HTML-Scrubber/issues/1

I then raised a pull request implementing the feature on 2023-06-20:
https://github.com/hidek/Catalyst-Plugin-HTML-Scrubber/pull/2

I've tried emailing the two email addresses I can find for him
publicly on 2023-06-20 with no response so far.

I believe https://www.linkedin.com/in/hideo-kimura-b6b6abb is him, I've
sent a connection request on 2023-06-28 but no reaction.

I haven't been able to find any other contact details so far.

I'd appreciate if anyone has any other method to contact Hideo, and/or
if we can't reach him, if one of the PAUSE admins would consider giving
me co-maint on it so I can get a new version out.

Cheers

David Precious (BIGPRESH)

Re: Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

[David Precious]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:08:34 -0400
James E Keenan  wrote:

> On 09/20/2017 06:01 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
> > One thing we could do is have a tool looking at newly registered
> > package names and alert the PAUSE admins to have a look at any that
> > are a short edit distance from an existing package name. 
> 
> Would anyone know of any prior art for detection of "short edit 
> distances"?  (Perhaps even already on CPAN?)

Isn't that just the Levenshtein distance?  So e.g.
Neil's Text::Levenshtein?

One thing I thing is good to consider is the fact that all CPAN releases
get announced on a quite populated IRC channel, increasing the chance of
someone spotting a release announcement and thinking "hmm, that looks
dodgy" - but that's of course not entirely reliable, and doesn't focus
only on new releases.

Re: Maintainership of Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable

[David Precious]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:22:40 +0100
Neil Bowers  wrote:

> I’ve just given you co-maint on Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable.

Perfect, thanks Neil!

 
> Julian, if you’re not happy with this, just let us know and I’ll
> revoke David’s co-maint.

Indeed - Julian, if you should happen to receive these mails late and
aren't happy for me to be maintaining this useful dist, I'll happily
hand it back.

Cheers

Dave P (BIGPRESH)

Re: Maintainership of Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable

[David Precious]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:03:17 +0100
David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:35:23 +0100
> Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote:
> > > modu...@cpan.org people, when you're satisfied it's been long
> > > enough, then I (BIGPRESH) would very much like perms on
> > > Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable.
> > > 
> > > First contact attempt was, as per chain below, 9th June by email;
> > > I've also reached out on LinkedIn as an alternate contact
> > > method.
> > 
> > We like a month to have elapsed from first contact, so if you’ve had
> > no reply by July 9th, then it should be fine.  
> 
> I've not had any response - I assume you haven't either?

Could I possibly be given perms on it
(Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable) when anyone has a moment, please?

<3

Re: Maintainership of Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable

[David Precious]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:35:23 +0100
Neil Bowers  wrote:
> > modu...@cpan.org people, when you're satisfied it's been long
> > enough, then I (BIGPRESH) would very much like perms on
> > Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable.
> > 
> > First contact attempt was, as per chain below, 9th June by email;
> > I've also reached out on LinkedIn as an alternate contact method.  
> 
> We like a month to have elapsed from first contact, so if you’ve had
> no reply by July 9th, then it should be fine.

I've not had any response - I assume you haven't either?

Cheers

Dave P (BIGPRESH)

Re: Maintainership of Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable

[David Precious]

And a further reminder of my offer to take on the maintenance of this
module.

modu...@cpan.org people, when you're satisfied it's been long enough,
then I (BIGPRESH) would very much like perms on
Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable.

First contact attempt was, as per chain below, 9th June by email; I've
also reached out on LinkedIn as an alternate contact method.


On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:52:09 +0100
David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Julian,
> 
> A further poke - no idea if you still use this CPAN address, but
> trying again as I got no reply to my mail below.  I also tried to
> reach out on LinkedIn in case you are active there but no longer read
> mail to this address.
> 
> As per my mail below, if you're no longer able to maintain
> Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable then I'd be happy to take over
> maintainership, if you'd be willing?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave P (BIGPRESH)
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 22:09:15 +0100 David Precious
> <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Julian,
> > 
> > We use Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable at work, and find it very
> > useful.
> > 
> > However, it needs updating to avoid a deprecation warning within
> > Net::DNS (RT #109266) and there are 6 other RT tickets too, some
> > marked critical, and all at least a year old, some more (oldest is 7
> > years old).
> > 
> > I imagine you've moved on to a different field, and don't have the
> > time/desire to maintain it any more?
> > 
> > If so, I'd like to offer to take over maintainership of this
> > distribution, if you'd be open to that?  I'd be keen to fix up some
> > of those outstanding issues and get a new release out, and continue
> > to maintain it for the foreseeable future - we use it fairly
> > heavily in our tests at work, so it's valuable to us.
> > 
> > If you'd be willing to let me take it on, I'm BIGPRESH on PAUSE; if
> > you have your PAUSE credentials to hand, you could transfer primary
> > maintainership to me, or add me as a co-maintainer, via:
> > 
> > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=share_perms
> > 
> > If you don't have access to your PAUSE credentials any more, but are
> > willing to let me take it on, I can poke our friendly neighbourhood
> > PAUSE admins and have them assist.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Dave P (BIGPRESH)  

Re: Maintainership of Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable

[David Precious]

Hi Julian,

A further poke - no idea if you still use this CPAN address, but trying
again as I got no reply to my mail below.  I also tried to reach out on
LinkedIn in case you are active there but no longer read mail to this
address.

As per my mail below, if you're no longer able to maintain
Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable then I'd be happy to take over
maintainership, if you'd be willing?

Cheers

Dave P (BIGPRESH)


On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 22:09:15 +0100 David Precious
<dav...@preshweb.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Julian,
> 
> We use Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable at work, and find it very
> useful.
> 
> However, it needs updating to avoid a deprecation warning within
> Net::DNS (RT #109266) and there are 6 other RT tickets too, some
> marked critical, and all at least a year old, some more (oldest is 7
> years old).
> 
> I imagine you've moved on to a different field, and don't have the
> time/desire to maintain it any more?
> 
> If so, I'd like to offer to take over maintainership of this
> distribution, if you'd be open to that?  I'd be keen to fix up some of
> those outstanding issues and get a new release out, and continue to
> maintain it for the foreseeable future - we use it fairly heavily in
> our tests at work, so it's valuable to us.
> 
> If you'd be willing to let me take it on, I'm BIGPRESH on PAUSE; if
> you have your PAUSE credentials to hand, you could transfer primary
> maintainership to me, or add me as a co-maintainer, via:
> 
> https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=share_perms
> 
> If you don't have access to your PAUSE credentials any more, but are
> willing to let me take it on, I can poke our friendly neighbourhood
> PAUSE admins and have them assist.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dave P (BIGPRESH)

Re: Contact to Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)

[David Precious]

On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:24:51 +
Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote:

> In October I transferred ownership of Business::Tax::VAT::Validation
> from Bernard Nauwelaerts (BGPN) to David Precious (BIGPRESH).
> 
> > Dave P showed me a copy of the email, so I’m happy to transfer
> > ownership:
> >  - Dave, you now have ownership of Business::Tax::VAT::Validation
> >  - Bernard, you still have co-maint, just let me know if you don’t
> >even want that (you’ll get cc’d on bug reports, for example)
> 
> Bernard has contacted me and asked me to transfer ownership back to
> him, with David maintaining co-maint. I have just made that change.

This puzzles me, as when I approached Bernard, asking if he'd be
willing to let me take it over (as it was unmaintained for a couple of
years and had some important bugs reported in RT with no response for a
couple of years) his response was "Yes, I'm the author of this
module. We may consider transferring it to your responsibility. How do
you want to proceed?" - to me that was an agreement to hand over
mmaintainership.

That said - I'm perfectly happy to just act as a co-maintainer, and
will contact Berhard off-list to discuss that (in particular, which
repository should be considered the "official" one, as I could find no
public repository and thus started a new one on GitHub with the code as
it was at the point I thought I was taking it over).

I'd just like to make it clear that this was a mis-understanding, and
not an attempt to subvert control of someone else's module.

Cheers

Dave P

Re: Contact to Bernard Nauwelaerts (BPGN)

[David Precious]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:27:12 +0100
Neil Bowers  wrote:
> >> [want to contribute to 
> >> Business::Tax::VAT::Validation, created by Bernard Nauwelaerts
> >> (BPGN)].
[...]
> > I've managed to contact him via LinkedIn, and he has indicated he'd
> > be happy to give me co-maint so I can take over maintainership and
> > get a new version out with required fixes, as I use that module at
> > work also.
[...]
> 
> Dave P showed me a copy of the email, so I’m happy to transfer
> ownership:
>   - Dave, you now have ownership of Business::Tax::VAT::Validation
>   - Bernard, you still have co-maint, just let me know if you don’t
> even want that (you’ll get cc’d on bug reports, for example)

Thanks Neil, greatly appreciated!

I'll fix up the outstanding tickets and get a new release out to CPAN
within the next week or so, hopefully sooner.

Cheers

Dave P

Re: [dancer-users] Adopting Dancer::Plugin::Passphrase

[David Precious]

I'd be happy to take on James' Dancer::Session::DBI, as we're active
users of it and happy to maintain it (I'm BIGPRESH on CPAN).

I'd be tempted to take on the awesome Acme::Addslashes too, but I think
it's reached the peak of perfection already ;)


On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:34:41 -0400
David Golden x...@xdg.me wrote:

 James,
 
 Thank you for filling in the missing pieces and providing an obituary
 link.  I've transitioned JAITKEN to PAUSE custodial status and
 transferred his modules to the ADOPTME account.
 
 PAUSE maintainers will transfer ownership of those modules to anyone
 who volunteers to take over.
 
 Regards,
 David
 
 
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:26 AM, James Ronan ja...@ronanweb.co.uk
 wrote:
 
  Further to this, regarding an obituary - I had a dig and found it:
 
  http://goo.gl/Ua6Mu3
 
 
  On 18/09/14 09:17, James Ronan wrote:
   Hi David,
  
   On 17/09/14 19:18, David Golden wrote:
   On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:33 AM, James Ronan
   ja...@ronanweb.co.uk mailto:ja...@ronanweb.co.uk wrote:
  
  
   If it helps, as his friend, I agree to it on his behalf ;)
  
  
   James,
  
   Requests to the Dancer project for information/details on James'
   passing were not returned, so James' modules weren't put into
   the usual custodial status.  Was an obituary published or are
   there additional details that can be shared to corroborate what
   happened?
  
   As James was estranged from his family it took some time for them
   to be tracked down, and as a result it's been difficult for us to
   get any more information.
  
   As far as we know, the accident he had a couple of months
   previous to his passing - where by he was struck by a motor
   vehicle whilst on foot - was the underlying cause.
  
   When he returned to work, and we spent some time talking, he told
   me that the doctors had confirmed that he had some form of damage
   to his brain, but they were happy he was showing good progress
   with healing and so he was allowed to return to work.  Over the
   course of those 2 months the injury to his leg was well on it's
   way to healing and he no longer required the walking stick he was
   using.
  
   About a week later we didn't hear from James for the tail end of
   a week (This was not uncommon as we all telecommute and
   occasionally we just get on with what we're doing). The shock
   came on the Monday morning when we had a message from his
   girlfriend that he had passed away. The details weren't clear, he
   had apparently returned to hospital because he was feeling
   unwell, as to whether he passed away in hospital or was again
   released we're unsure.  Needless to say we didn't really press
   his girlfriend for more information given the situation.
  
   I can confirm however that due to the support of his friends, the
   Perl community and even some complete strangers, that James did
   get a decent funeral and a proper send off. So my personal thanks
   to all those that contributed, as it was a send off he deserved.
  
   Hope this helps shed some light, and allows us to keep James'
   modules
  going.
  
   Thanks again,
   JamesR
  
  
 
  --
  James Ronan
 
 
 
 



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Re: Attempt to contact module author Shlomo Yona (SuffixTree module on CPAN)

[David Precious]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:29:38 -0700
David Oswald daosw...@gmail.com wrote:
 The module author Shlomo Yona for the Perl Module SuffixTree lists an
 email address that is no longer valid.  An email has been sent to this
 author's @cpan.org email address as well (I'm hopeful that there will
 be a response, but as of now haven't). [...]
 This message is an attempt to contact Shlomo Yona.  If you know how to
 reach him please let me know.  If he's willing, I would ask that he
 grant co-maint.

With a quick Google, I found a cs.technion.ac.il address for him, and
have forwarded your mail to him at that address, and also attempted to
connect on LinkedIn with a note explaining why.


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