I suspect, if only due to your moniker around here, that you have likely been around the Perl community longer than I. For those of us unaware, what is the process for 'tak(ing) over maintenance' of a potentially abandoned module? If one wanted to do that, how would one proceed? I have only now attempted to contact this module's author and have no idea if it is abandoned or not. This page reports that the author has contributed as recently as three years ago (with something oddly called mysql-genocide-0.03).

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