In the case you are describing, it would appear that AWRIGLEY is currently maintaining HTML-Summary (or he took over maintenance of the module). To find out whether this is actually true or not, you'd have to contact both the authors.

There is a reason the CPAN faq says that you should ask on the modules list before releasing anything to cpan.

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.