Looking for Father Chrysostomos

Jorge_de_Burgos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have released a new version of my App + Library for PDF page imposition, App::paperback.

This line of work is built around the old PDF syntax (before PDF v1.5 came about and made xref parsing much tougher in exchange for some compression).

Now I'm looking for Father Chrysostomos, author of PDF::Tiny and many other wonderful distributions. I want to base new development of my App::paperback on PDF::Tiny.

Father Chrysostomos seems to have ceased contributing to CPAN or Github sometime around 2018.

Does anyone know how to reach him? He hasn't replied to my emails.

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Re: Looking for Father Chrysostomos by hv (Prior) on Sep 14, 2022 at 12:09 UTC
What I heard in the rumour mill (a few years ago) was that his monastic order instructed him to stop his open source work. I have no further detail, sorry. PDF::Tiny ships with license details that say what you can do with it, so in principle it should be possible for you to continue even without contacting him.	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for Father Chrysostomos by Jorge_de_Burgos (Beadle) on Sep 14, 2022 at 14:46 UTC
Sad to know even if it's just rumour... I guess I will go on reusing parts of PDF::Tiny and adding the missing parts (missing for App::paperback, I mean). Big thanks!	[reply]
Re: Looking for Father Chrysostomos by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2022 at 19:23 UTC
He was the webmaster for his monastery. It's unclear what happened. When I and my wife visited him in September 2018, he said he was getting more added duties, so that he couldn't spend so much time on perl. He was teaching more classes, and being placed in charge of the library, and doing translating, if I recall correctly. But his work on perl dropped to zero soon after.	[reply]
Re: Looking for Father Chrysostomos by NERDVANA (Priest) on Aug 03, 2025 at 02:20 UTC
Still absent :-( WWW::Scripter can't be installed with Carton, and HTML::DOM has one test that fails on all perls newer than 5.28. Issues and patches have already been created on RT or GitHub, but no replies.	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for Father Chrysostomos by Arunbear (Prior) on Aug 03, 2025 at 11:02 UTC
To be fair, both of those modules are documented as being Alpha / experimental. Perhaps you could request maintainership? (Adopting a module on CPAN)	[reply]