Bowing to the infinitely wise monks, I ask:

What would be the proper approach to attempt a take-over of a CPAN module that I've patched, but have received no response from the author?

I do not want to seem impolite, but six months of attempted contact has produced nothing.

The specific module is CGI::Application::Plugin::PageBuilder. I use this module extensively in one of my apps.

The patch I wrote is *very* simple. I came across the brokenness when I upgraded from Perl 5.8* to 5.10*:

--- CGI-Application-Plugin-PageBuilder-0.97/lib/CGI/Application/Plugin
+/PageBuilder.pm   2006-09-15 13:21:26.000000000 -0400
+++ CGI-Application-Plugin-PageBuilder-0.97.good/lib/CGI/Application/P
+lugin/PageBuilder.pm      2009-11-25 15:30:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
        my( $self, $param, $value ) = @_;
 
        return unless $value;
-       ${$self->{__PB_TEMPLATE_LIST}}[$#{@{$self->{__PB__TEMPLATE_LIS
+T}}}]->param( $param, $value );
+       $self->{__PB_TEMPLATE_LIST}->[-1]->param( $param, $value );
        return $self->pb_build();
 }
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I don't want anything hostile, so how would one go about dealing with this?. If the original author is truly absent, I am willing to take over responsibility for it

Steve

Update: s/Plugins/Plugin/ in the module path.